books by Mieke Bal     books:     Mieke Bal      Looking In: The Art of Viewing (Critical Voices in Art, Theory & Culture) Mieke Bal Routledge, 2001 Mieke Bal is one of Europe's leading theorists and critics. Her work within feminist art history and cultural studies provides a fascinating alternative to prevailing thinking in these fields. The essays in this collection include Bal's brilliant analyses of the: Myth of Rembrandt Imagery of Vermeer Baroque of Caravaggio Neo-Baroque of David Reed ...             Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative Mieke Bal University of Toronto Press, 1997 An excellent introduction to the formalist approach This book is an excellent introduction to the formalist approach literary criticism. In formalist approaches, the text is analyzed according to the form it takes and the way discourse is constructed. It is a text-centered approach as opposed to a reader-centered ...             Balthus: Works, Interviews Balthus Poligrafa, 2008 Widely considered one of the greatest, and certainly one of the most mysterious and erotically daring, painters of the twentieth century, Balthus, or Balthazar Klossowski, the French/Polish Count de Rola, died in his adopted Switzerland in 2001 at the age of 93. Descended from Polish aristocracy and raised among important European intellectuals ...             Loving Yusuf: Conceptual Travels from Present to Past (Afterlives of the Bible) Mieke Bal University Of Chicago Press, 2008 When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In Loving Yusuf ¸ Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and text, using the same story, in which Joseph spurns the advance of his master’s wife who ...             Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide (Green College Lecture Series) Mieke Bal University of Toronto Press, 2002 Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways and the reader can follow or willfully ignore ...             Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature) Mieke Bal Indiana University Press, 1987 Freud, Feminism, and the Bible Why is death so often associated with love? This is the question that Professor Bal confronts in analyzing five stories of the scriptures from David and Bathsheba, Samson and Delilah, to Adam and Eve. On the minus side, the text is plagued by too much scholarly ...             A Mieke Bal Reader Mieke Bal University Of Chicago Press, 2006 Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the point where critical issues and methods intersect—or collide. She is deeply interested in the ...             Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present Dartmouth, 1998 Acts of Memory presents 15 tightly integrated essays that illustrate the active role of individual and cultural memory in tying the past to the present. Memory, or memorialization, is a cultural activity occurring in the present that offers history another kind of source or document; one that provides insights into the past as it lives on today. ...             Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition (Amsterdam University Press - Amsterdam Archaeological ... Mieke Bal Amsterdam University Press, 2006 Reading Rembrandt questions the traditional boundaries between literary and visual analysis with close, side-by-side readings of some of the Dutch master’s works alongside paintings of the same era whose attribution is still debated. A new understanding of the role of visuality in our culture emerges, one that makes significant inroads, ...             Murder and Difference: Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on Sisera's Death (Indiana Studies in Biblical ... Mieke Bal Indiana University Press, 1992             The Point of Theory: Practices of Cultural Analysis Continuum International Publishing Group, 2002 A compilation of scholarly, graduate-level essays Collaboratively edited by Mieke Bal (Professor of the Theory of Literature, University of Amsterdam) and Inge E. Boer (Associate Professor of Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam), The Point Of Theory: Practices Of Cultural Awareness is a compilation of scholarly, ...             The Practice of Cultural Analysis: Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation (Cultural Memory in the Present) Stanford University Press, 1999 This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship, one that can be situated somewhere between cultural studies and cultural history while being more specific than either. Cultural analysis as a critical practice is based on a keen awareness of the critic’s situatedness in the present—the social and cultural ...             On Story-Telling: Essays in Narratology (Foundations and Facets) (Foundations and Facets Literary Facets) Mieke Bal Polebridge Press, 1991 A readable and absorbing volume of annotated essays illustrating the approach of Mieke Bal to story-telling. Essays include reflections and background on methodology, theory of narrative, and examples of how narratology unmasks the meaning behind texts from the world's great story-tellers.             Videodreams: Between The Cinematic And The Theatrical Mieke Bal, Adam Budak, ... Walther Konig, 2004 The transition between a dream and reality is sometimes blurry and jagged--moments of panic, confusion, fear, joy, a trail of thoughts that carries emotions from one world to the next. This delicate, ever-shifting boundary between real and virtual environments is explored in Videodreams, the exhibition catalogue of recent video installations by ...             Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History Mieke Bal University Of Chicago Press, 2001 Spectacular images, intelligent writing I've never seen such high quality color reproduction in an academic text. Chicago UP should be congratulated for doing such a fine job. Gorgeous images. And the choice of images is thought-provoking - a wonderful array of artists. Bal's argument made me think about ...          products you might be interested in search for books archaeological, contemporary, interdisciplinary, interpretation, preposterous, story-telling      geepe.com    web randomly chosen toys & games: Rose Art Smart! Easel