{"id":5627,"date":"2026-10-25T16:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2026-10-25T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T23:57:45","slug":"ekphrastic-ekphrasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5627","title":{"rendered":"Ekphrastic Ekphrasis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2026\/10\/08\/flow-chart-of-paris-riverwork-lisa-robertson\/\" target=\"_blank\">this essay<\/a> on the book Riverwork by Lisa Robertson in the New York Review, Ange Mlinko used this phrase:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    Lucy and her companionable dialogue with Chateaubriand, which builds to an ekphrastic sublime:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ekphrastic &#8211; adjective &#8211; pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ekphrasis\" target=\"_blank\">The Wikipedia entry<\/a> for Ekphrasis gives some clear, lucid examples of how it was used over the last few thousand years, as a means to convey in words a work of art or an object that, before printing, could only be seen at one place. The shield of Achilles from the Iliad is one example given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8211; adjective &#8211; pertaining to ekphrasis; clear, lucid The Wikipedia entry for Ekphrasis gives some clear, lucid examples of how &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=5627\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,3825,13,16,17,4604],"tags":[5252,5250,5251,5253,4873,5217],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-sergneri","post-5627","format-standard","category-faits-divers","category-feminism","category-history","category-politics","category-sea-stories","category-thinking-about","category-what-i-read","post_tag-ange-mlinko","post_tag-ekphrasis","post_tag-ekphrastic","post_tag-lisa-robertson","post_tag-new-york-review-of-books","post_tag-some-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5629,"href":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5627\/revisions\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}