Analysis and interpretation of a novel

7 Dezembro 2016, 10:00 • Isabel Maria da Cunha Rosa Fernandes

Tracy Chevalier's novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring. Analysis and interpretation of the opening paragraphs: characterizing the narrator and the other characters.

The knife as a leitmotif. The symbolic importance of the circular shapes in the opening of the novel: the vegetables circle and the eight-pointed star.

The importance of space and space descriptions.

Ekphrastic sections in the novel.