This reader brings together a representative collection of Mieke Bal's work that distills her broad interests and areas of expertise.

A rigorous, rewarding work, "Quoting Caravaggio" is at once a meditation on history as a creative, nonlinear process; a study of the work of Caravaggio and the Baroque; and a brilliant critical exposition of contemporary artistic expression ...

Índice abreviado: 1. Text: words and other signs 2. Story: aspects 3. Fabula: elements. Afterword: theses on the use of narratology for cultural analysis.

Providing insights into how readers interpret narrative text, the fourth edition of Narratology is a guide for students and scholars seeking to analyze narratives of any language, period, and region with clear, systematic, and reliable ...

"Already a seminal work and international classic, Narratology is revised and updated in this fourth edition to include a greater emphasis on literary texts"--Back of book.

Bal's focus for this book is the idea that interdisciplinarity in the humanities - necessary, exciting, serious - must seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than its methods.

This book is the conclusion of a six-year-long project, started in 1980, and the third in a series of three studies on biblical narrative.

The works by Rembrandt gain in depth and interest, but an original perspective of the role of visuality in our culture also emerges, which ultimately has consequences for our views of gender, the artists, and the act of reading.

It invites viewers in and repels them at the same time. We get access to a world all his own, but are not told what is there to see.Thus, the works labor against assumptions of representation and appropriation.

Narratology in Practice draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.