Showing papers by "Mieke Bal published in 1991"

On Story-Telling: Essays in Narratology

Abstract: A readable and absorbing volume of annotated essays illustrating the approach of Mieke Bal to story-telling. Essays include reflections and background on methodology, theory of narrative, and examples of how narratology unmasks the meaning behind texts from the world's great story-tellers

Lots of writing

Abstract: Lot(s) of writing happen(s) in the Book of Esther, and writing is where words and images converge, where the visual and the verbal, fate and agency, Providence and plotting come together. In this article I grapple with visual and verbal representations of self-reflexion in the story of Esther, as depicted in the Scroll of Esther and in two paintings by Rembrandt. The paintings are used as a gloss on the Book of Esther and interpretations thereof, and Esther's feast is presented as a feast of writing, with its relation to Purim revealed in the tension between writing and randomness, agency and luck, or lot.