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.