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Mieke Gerritzen

Mieke Gerritzen Koert van Mensvoort, Michiel Schwarz. 003 Next Nature text: Koert van Mensvoort 012 image: Arnoud van den Heuvel 016 image: Debbie Mollenhagen 021 image: Hendrik-Jan Grievink 027 image: Ryan Oduber 031 image: ...
Double Exposures: The Practice of Cultural Analysis

Double Exposures: The Practice of Cultural Analysis

Mieke Bal

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.
A Mieke Bal Reader

A Mieke Bal Reader

Mieke Bal

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 ...
Using Mixed Methods Research Synthesis for Literature ...

Using Mixed Methods Research Synthesis for Literature ...

Mieke Heyvaert

The typology from Mieke Heyvaert, Bea Maes, and Patrick Onghena (2013) and the typology from Pierre Pluye and Quan Nha Hong (2014), for example, adopted one or more of the three dimensions outlined by Nancy L. Leech and Anthony J.
Murder and Difference: Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on ...

Murder and Difference: Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on ...

Mieke Bal

"... an important contribution to current literary concerns with the ideologies of texts.
Looking In: The Art of Viewing

Looking In: The Art of Viewing

Mieke Bal

In Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore.
Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History

Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History

Mieke Bal

The author's primary object of investigation in this text is not the Caravaggio, but rather the issue of temporality in art.
Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide

Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide

Mieke Bal

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.
From Classrooms to Conflict in Rwanda

From Classrooms to Conflict in Rwanda

Elisabeth King

Claire McGlynn, Michalinos Zembylas, Zvi Bekerman, and Tony Gallgher (pp. 59 –74). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Novelli, Mario, and Mieke T.A. Lopes Cardozo. 2008. “Conflict, Education and the Global South: New Critical Directions.
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative

Mieke Bal

Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills years of study of the ways in which we understand both literary and non-literary works.
The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife

The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife

Katherine Low

52. Mieke Bal, “Reading Art?,” in Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts : FeministReadings (ed. Griselda Pollock', New York: Routledge, 1996), 25—42. 53. C. L. Seow, “Reflections on the History of Consequences: The Case of Job,” ...
Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo's Political Art

Of What One Cannot Speak: Doris Salcedo's Political Art

Mieke Bal

Yet Bal draws out even deeper responses to the work, questioning the nature of political art altogether and introducing concepts of metaphor, time, and space in order to contend with Salcedo’s powerful sculptures and installations.
Jugend und Jugendpolitik in benachteiligten Stadtteilen in ...

Jugend und Jugendpolitik in benachteiligten Stadtteilen in ...

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Harrie B. Jonkman l Mieke Vergeer The principle, Love; the basis, Order; the end, Progress. (Auguste Comte) 1. Einleitung In den Niederlanden gab es in den 90er Jahren einen Anstieg der Jugendkriminalität. Die Gewalt wurde härter und die ...

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