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Mieke Bal

Born

in Netherlands

March 14, 1946

Website

http://www.miekebal.org

Genre

Cultural Theory, Video Art, Literary Theory

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Mieke Bal is a Dutch literary theorist, cultural and art historian.

Areas of interest range from biblical and classical antiquity to 17th century and contemporary art and modern literature, feminism and migratory culture. Her many publications include A Mieke Bal Reader (2006), Travelling Concepts in the Humanities (2002) and Narratology (4th edition 2017). Her view of interdisciplinary analysis in the Humanities and Social Sciences is expressed in the profile of what she has termed “cultural analysis”, the basis of ASCA. See the video clip on the right side of this page, where I explain the approach.

Mieke is also a video artist, her internationally exhibited documentaries on migration include Separations, State of Suspension, Becoming Vera ...more

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	Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative 3.68 avg rating — 523 ratings — published 1978 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frida Kahlo by Mieke Bal, Christian Gether, Laura Gonzáles Matute 4.19 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travelling Concepts in the Humanities 3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2002 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present by Mieke Bal (Editor), Jonathan Crewe (Editor), Leo Spitzer (Editor) 3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking In 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lethal Love: Feminist Literary Readings of Biblical Love Stories 4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death and Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges by Mieke Bal, Ruth Richardson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Architecture of Loneliness: Reflections on Displacement and Welcoming really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Story-Telling: Essays in Narratology (Foundations and Facets) 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For him, art is the only possible way of understanding and knowing the world. Reality only becomes meaningful when it is re-created in art. Language possesses a sheer-magical power that allows the writer to create and to conquer time.”
― Mieke Bal, Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Fourth Edition

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“Motivation is, then, both another narrative aspect of collecting and its intrinsically ungraspable beginning.”
― Mieke Bal, The Cultures of Collecting

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