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Ekphrastic Ekphrasis

October 25, 2026 by sergneri

While reading this essay on the book Riverwork by Lisa Robertson in the New York Review, Ange Mlinko used this phrase: Lucy and her companionable dialogue with Chateaubriand, which builds to an ekphrastic sublime: ekphrastic – adjective – pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid The Wikipedia entry for Ekphrasis gives some clear, lucid examples of how … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Feminism, History, Politics, Sea Stories, Thinking about, What I Read Tagged: Ange Mlinko, Ekphrasis, Ekphrastic, Lisa Robertson, New York Review of Books, Some words

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