Representation: introduction to the topic Rudyard Kipling - The Overland Mail (full text) 1. Who are the characters of the poem? Discuss the role of the robber and the tiger. 2. What is the setting? What part of the day is the poem set in? 3. How is Indian landscape represented in the poem? Why? Is there any danger implied in the text? Does the country seem to be populated? Is the description of the country real or can it be perceived as a metaphor? 4. From whose perspective is the poem narrated? 5. What is the role of runner? How is he different from the robber? Why is he important for the exiles? Does he have a name? 6. Compare the ways the author refers to the exiles and the runner / jungle. 7. Is the hill where the exiles reside symbolic? Explain. Is there any difference between the...

Dept. of English and American Studies, CPU Nitra, Slovakia Word & Image in Contemporary Culture “Ut Pictura Poesis” Keynote Speaker: Steve Tomasula, PhD., University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Steve Tomasula is author of the novels VAS: An Opera in Flatland (University of Chicago Press); The Book of Portraiture (University of Alabama Press/FC2); IN & OZ (Ministry of Whimsy Press); TOC: A New-Media Novel (University of Alabama Press/FC2) and his works approach the relationship between WORD or TEXT and IMAGE. https://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/tomasula/   This year the Dept. of English and American Studies at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia organizes the sixth week-long project designed for the students of the department. Each year,...