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The girl with the pearl earring door Tracy Chevalier
Bibliography
Chevalier, Tracy. Girl with the pearl earring. New York: First edition
Summary
This book is about a maid whose name is Griet. She works for the family Vermeer. After her sister Agnes dies because of an epidemic of plague, everything becomes dull to her. From that moment Pieter’s interest in Griet increased. Griet’s parents want Griet to marry Pieter the son, but Griet is more in love with her master Johannes Vermeer. After the moment that Van Ruijven asks to Johannes to paint a painting of Griet, Griet’s secret assisting becomes very difficult. Cornelia Catherina’s favorite child, tries to frame Griet and Johannes and tell her mother about the errands and the chores Griet has to do for her master. This is the reason why Catherina finds out that Johannes had been painting Griet. Griet has to leave her job and starts to work for the butcher. She marries Pieter. A few years later when Johannes dies, Catherina gives her pearl earrings that Johannes used to complete the painting of Griet.
Maincharacters
Griet is the main character of the book. The whole book is about her life. At the start of the story Griet lives home at her parents. Soon she lives at the house of
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Ekphrasis in 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'
EKPHRASIS IN GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING Miriam de Paiva Vieira miriamvieira@ Art does not reproduce the visible, rather, it makes visible. Paul Klee Abstract: Ekphrasis is the term used to define verbal descriptions of non-verbal sign systems, generally poetry. This essay aims to use the concept of ekphrasis within the universe of intermediality to analyse the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring, by the American author Tracy Chevalier, who lives in London at present. The literary work, built by means of ekphrastic descriptions, is a type of novel called Künstlerroman. The life and artwork of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer are blended with fiction and told by the invented model of the portrait Girl with a Pearl Earring, Griet, who also happens to be the protagonist of this novel. Resumo: Ecfrase é um termo usado para definir descrições verbais de signos não verbais, na maioria das vezes, poesia. Este ensaio tem como objetivo utilizar o conceito de ecfrase, dentro do universo da intermidialidade, para analisar o romance Moça com brinco de pérola, da autora americana, radicada em Londres, Tracy Chevalier. A obra literária que se constrói em torno de descrições ecfrásticas é um tipo de romance conhecido como Künstlerroman. A vida e