Mieke Bal: 9 books

Book cover of Thinking in Film

Thinking in Film

The Politics of Video Art Installation According to Eija-Liisa Ahtila

by Mieke Bal
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013

What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila to understand movement as artistic practice and as affect. Through fifteen years...
Book cover of Endless Andness

Endless Andness

The Politics of Abstraction According to Ann Veronica Janssens

by Mieke Bal
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013

In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art which does not passively yield its meaning to the viewer but creates it anew - an art perceived not only through the retina but experienced viscerally. In this book, the third of her companion volumes...
Book cover of Narratology

Narratology

Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Fourth Edition

by Mieke Bal
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017

Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers interpret narrative text, the fourth edition of Narratology...
Book cover of Narratology

Narratology

Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

by Mieke Bal
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009

Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills...
Book cover of Travelling Concepts in the Humanities
by Mieke Bal
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 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...
Book cover of Double Exposures

Double Exposures

The Practice of Cultural Analysis

by Mieke Bal
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012

A feminist literary theorist, specialist in Rembrandt, and a scholar with a knack for reading Old Testament stories, Mieke Bal weaves a tapestry of signs and meanings that enrich our senses. Her subject is the act of showing, the gesture of exposing to view. In a museum, for example, the object is...
Book cover of Storytelling in Science and Literature
by Mieke Bal, Roald Hoffmann, Evelyn Fox Keller
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014

In this book a gathering of exceptional thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engage a common theme: In what ways do language, and storytelling in particular, deal with ethics in science, in literature, or in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Mieke Bal, and Roald Hoffmann...
Book cover of The Philosophy of Documentary Film
by Diana Allan, Rick Altman, Ariella Azoulay
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

The spirit that founded the volume and guided its development is radically inter- and transdisciplinary. Dispatches have arrived from anthropology, communications, English, film studies (including theory, history, criticism), literary studies (including theory, history, criticism), media and screen...
Book cover of Looking In

Looking In

The Art of Viewing

by Mieke Bal, Norman Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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