A Mieke Bal Reader

ISBN-13: 9780226035857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 408 str.

Mieke Bal

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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 problems of cultural analysis across a range of disciplines. "A Mieke Bal Reader "brings together for the first time a representative collection of her work that distills her broad interests and areas of expertise.
This "Reader "is organized into four parts, reflecting the fields that Bal has most profoundly influenced: literary study, interdisciplinary methodology, visual analysis, and postmodern theology. The essays include some of Bal s most characteristic and provocative work, capturing her at the top of her form. Narration and Focalization, for example, provides the groundwork for Bal s ideas on narrative, while Reading Art? clearly outlines her concept of reading images. Religious Canon and Literary Identity reenvisions Bal s own work at the intersection of theology and cultural analysis, while Enfolding Feminism argues for a new feminist rallying cry that is not a position but a metaphor. More than a dozen other essays round out the four sections, each of which is interdisciplinary in its own right: the section devoted to literature, for instance, ranges widely over psychoanalysis, theology, photography, and even autobiography.
"A Mieke Bal Reader" is the product of a capacious intellect and a sustained commitment to critical thinking. It will prove to be instructive, maddening, and groundbreaking in short, all the hallmarks of intellectual inquiry at its best."