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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 ...
THE CHAKH LE INDIA Cookbook:

THE CHAKH LE INDIA Cookbook:

Aditya Bal

A weekor solater Ifound myself sitting at Marrut Sikka's 'Magique' in Delhi,asking him foradviceon howtogoabout things, when he suggested thatI go and meet Monica Narula at NDTV Good Times. Atthe time, he was hosting a cookery show for ...
The Prospect of Global History

The Prospect of Global History

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24 Aditya Behl and Wendy Doniger (eds), The Magic Doe: Qutban Suhravardi's Mirigavati: A New Translation by Aditya Behl (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), especially Behl's introduction, pp. 9–38. 25 Musharraf Ali Farooqi and ...
Islam in South Asia in Practice

Islam in South Asia in Practice

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Aditya Behl and Simon Weightman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). For a reading of a different Hindavi romance, see Aditya Behl, “The Magic Doe: Desire and Narrative in a Hindavi Sufi Romance,” in Richard M. Eaton, ed., India's ...
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.
Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order

Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order

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... Nawid); and Hyderābād, A.P., India, in 2005 (with Aditya Behl, Nomanul Haq, David Lelyveld, Victor Mair, Anwar Moazzam, Senzil Nawid, Jim Nye, and John Perry). At Penn in October 2006, with Aditya Behl, Joseph Farrell, Michael Fisher  ...
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.
Bal's Spice Kitchen

Bal's Spice Kitchen

Bal Arneson

Collects recipes for favorite dishes such as mac and cheese, braised short ribs, and mashed potatoes complemented by new spice combinations using the herbs and spices of India, with a guide to creating spice mixtures and a spice glossary.
Bal's Quick & Healthy Indian

Bal's Quick & Healthy Indian

Bal Arneson

Presents photographs, instructions, and recipes for 120 dishes that combine healthy ingredients with Indian spices and flavors, along with sample menus to use for special occasions and a directory of wineries in the British Columbia area.
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.
Madhumalati: An Indian Sufi Romance

Madhumalati: An Indian Sufi Romance

Manjhan

An Indian Sufi Romance Manjhan Aditya Behl, Simon Weightman ... Dr Rizvi enthusiastically shared his knowledge of the Hindavı ̄ Sufi romances with us, helping Aditya Behl to check the printed edition of the text line by line against a ...
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.
Literature and theology at century's end

Literature and theology at century's end

Gregory Salyer

16-38. 63. Bal, "Dealing with Women," p. 21. 64. On the question of name and narrative power see Bal, "Dealing with Women," pp. 18, 19. 65. Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, p. 240. 66. Gloria Neufeld Redekop, "Let the Women Learn: I Timothy ...
Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, ...

Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, ...

Aditya Behl

These curious romantic tales transmit a profound religious message through the medium of adventurous stories of love.
Osmanlı Arşiv belgelerindeki Trabzonlu devlet adamları ve ...

Osmanlı Arşiv belgelerindeki Trabzonlu devlet adamları ve ...

Mehmet Akif Bal

Trabzon (Turkey); officials and employees; biography.
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.
Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers ...

Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers ...

Aditya Bhargava

By the end of this book, they will know some of the most widely applicable algorithms, as well as how and when to use them. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
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.

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