Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring

5 Maio 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring - analysis (continued). 

The importance of space in the novel: spatial images; the space of the town, the space in the Vermeer's household.

Power relations in the novel (in relation to space).

Narrative analysis

3 Maio 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Tracy Chevalier's novel Girl with a Pearl Earring. Analysis of the opening paragfraphs of the novel.

The concept and function of the narrator. Types of narrator: homodiegetic and autodiegetic vs. heterodiegetic narrators.

To tell and to show. From mimesis to diegesis or from narration to scene. The notion of exposition in narrative.

The use of rhetorical devices such as metaphors and similes and their nature. How they are used to characterize the protagonist and other characters. 

Leitmotif - concept and example. The knife as a leitmotif in the novel.

Visual poems and ekphrastic poems

28 Abril 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Analysis and interpretation of "Bare Almond Trees" by D. H. Lawrence. The importance of visuality.

Analysis and interpretation of "Van Gogh Cornfield with Crows" by James O. Taylor. The use of oxymoron.

Text analysis

26 Abril 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Simile and Metaphor - Definition and examples. Examples taken from "Bat" by D. H. Lawrence.

Analysis and interpretation of Anne Sexton's poem "The starry night". The poem as ekphrasis.

analysis of Van Gogh's painting "The Starry Night" and its relationship to the poem.

From painting to music: audition of Don McLean's "Vincent".

Text analysis

21 Abril 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Analysis and interpretation of W. H. Auden's poem "Musée des Beaux Arts". The notion of 'ekphrasis'. Comments on the poem and on related paintings by P. Brueghel, namely Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.

Analysis and interpretation of "Bat" by D. H. Lawrence.