{"product_id":"a-mieke-bal-reader-mieke-bal-9780226035840","title":"A Mieke Bal Reader","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eA Mieke Bal Reader \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together for the first time a representative collection of her work that distills her broad interests and areas of expertise. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eReader \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Mieke Bal Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mieke Bal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226035840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226035840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.34w x 1.27d","brand":"Mieke Bal","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086388932863,"sku":"9780226035840","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c2a3d386-d4d0-4aed-9a5e-274ae18de872.jpg?v=1769094395","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-mieke-bal-reader-mieke-bal-9780226035840","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}