Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched. This work reflects the fields that Bal has most profoundly influenced: literary study, interdisciplinary methodology, visual analysis…

The author challenges the view that literary texts cannot be examined by words alone, arguing that images also play a role in the interpretation process.

Mielke Bal analyses the act of showing, the gesture of exposing to view. In a museum, for example, the object is on display, made visually available. ‘That’s how it is’…

Sets the Genesis tale to the different version told in the Qur'an and the depictions of it by Rembrandt, and explores how Thomas Mann’s retelling in Joseph and His Brothers…

This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship situated somewhere between cultural studies and cultural history. Cultural analysis as a critical practice is based on a keen awareness of…

A dictionary that simultaneously reenvisions the interactions of images with words and the potential forms of the book itself. It contains twenty-six essays that illuminate concepts from Abstract to Zestful.

In this book the five prominent contemporary artists Marlene Dumas, Terje Nicolaisen, Nalini Malani, Georg Baselitz, and Tracey Emin have each compiled a personal selection of Edvard Munch's drawings.

The phenomenon of martyrdom is more than 2000 years old but, as contemporary events show, still very much alive. Martyrdom: Canonisation, Contestation and Afterlives examines the canonisation, contestation and afterlives…