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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.

• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Analyzing Literature in Culture
• Narration and Focalization
• Introduction
• Analysis
• Commentary Agents
• Reader Illustrations
• Interpretations
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• The Story of W
• The Practice of Theory Rape, Suicide, Signs, and Show
• Contagious Logorrhea: Between Men
• Vision Vying Violence: Between Women
• Expository Writing
• Notes
• References
• All in the Family: Familiarity and Estrangement According to Marcel Proust
• Introduction
• Desire and the Ontology of the Snapshot
• Primal Scenes: Against the Familial Gaze
• Ethnography as Voyeurism
• The Narration of Relation
• Notes
• References
• Over-Writing as Un-Writing: Descriptions, World-Making, and Novelistic Time
• Introduction
• Robin (the frame)
• Albertine (the object)
• Lucretia (the killing)
• Nana (the decomposition)
• Emma (the end)
• Notes
• References
• Interdisciplinary Methodology
• Scared to Death
• Scared to Death of Theory
• Metaphors as Narratives
• The Concept of "Metaphor" and the Metaphor "Concept"
• Theory as Practice
• Notes
• References
• Telling, Showing, Showing Off
• Setting as Image, Nature as Sign
• Who Is Speaking?
• Asian Mammals: The Politics of Transition
• The Contest between Time and Space: Evolution and Taxonomy
• Circular Epistemology In the Beginning
• Was the Word Picking Up Crumbs
• Notes
• References
• Enfolding Feminism
• Figuring It Out Beyond Representation
• From House-Wife to House-Woman
• Actualizing Attention
• De-allegorizing Feminism
• Notes
• References
• Intention
• A Concept We Hate to Love
• Forms of Abandon
• Productive Opposition
• The Logic of Intentionalism
• The Performance of Thought
• Narrative Abandon
• Abandoning Authority
• Notes
• References
• Visual Analysis
• Telling Objects: A Narrative Perspective on Collecting Narrative
• Introduction
• Collecting as a Narrative
• Beginnings: Many
• Beginnings: One
• Middle Endings
• Notes
• References
• Reading Art?
• Appropriation Neither Speech nor Icon
• The Need to Read
• Reading Through, Skin-Deep
• Reading History
• Notes
• References
• Reading Bathsheba: From Mastercodes to Misfits
• Introduction
• Genres as Mastercodes
• Denaturalizing Mastercodes
• Reading (for the) Text
• The Telling Detail
• The Line of Sight
• Return to Sender: The Letter Writes Back
• Reading Distortion
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Postmodern Theology
• The Rape of Narrative and the Narrative of Rape: Speech Acts and Body Language in Judges
• Speech Acts: The Word Become Flesh
• Samson's Riddle: The Word Become Woman
• The Riddle as Vow and the Vow as Riddle
• The Daughter's Body Language as a Challenge to Fatherhood
• The Mouth of the S/word
• Notes
• References
• Lots of Writing
• Introduction
• Self-Reflection
• Esther Writing
• Esther's Writing
• The Subject of Writing
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Postmodern Theology as Cultural Analysis
• Points of Departure
• Caravaggio Today
• Reframing Judith
• Notes
• References
• Religious Canon and Literary Identity
• Literary Canon and Religious Identity
• Religious Canon and Literary Identity
• Ethical Non-Indifference and Artistic Merit
• The Cutting Edge of Literary Identity
• Double Binding: Literary Identity and Its Religious Effects
• History, Identity, and Religious Canon
• Notes
• References
• Cultural Analysis in an Expanded Field
• Meanwhile: Literature in an Expanded Field
• Notes
• References
• Index of Proper Nouns and Titles
• Index of Terms and Concepts