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Mieke Bal

Bio: Mieke Bal is an academic researcher from University of Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Narrative & Cultural analysis. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 215 publications receiving 7127 citations. Previous affiliations of Mieke Bal include Dublin Institute of Technology & Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.


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10 citations

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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: Two groups of figures represented in ‘Rembrandt’1: nude, often mature, women and blind old men; two viewing positions distinguished in modern theory: the gaze and the glance; two gendered positions distinguished by Western culture: women as objects of looking, men as subjects of looking as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Two groups of figures represented in ‘Rembrandt’1: nude, often mature, women and blind old men; two viewing positions distinguished in modern theory: the gaze and the glance; two gendered positions distinguished by Western culture: women as objects of looking, men as subjects of looking; two gendered feelings distinguished by psychoanalysis: fear and envy; two arts, two media, two semiotic systems distinguished by Western academia: textuality and vision; two ways of processing these: reading and looking; two paradigms of interpretation: the verbal one, based on Jakobsonian ideal, mutual communication, and the visual one, based on one-sided, objectifying voyeurism; is there life beyond binary thinking?

10 citations

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TL;DR: This paper explored the implications of the story of Judith for modern Western epistemology through close readings of a number of Renaissance paintings on Judith by Caravaggio and Artemesia Gentileschi.
Abstract: The story of Judith is one of those biblical stories that Western culture has been eager to adopt. It is an exciting story because Judith is a national heroine, but frightening for men, using her sexual attraction to lure her foe. Owing to the conflict of loyalties the story poses, it was often used in the history of art and literature to project misogyny and gynophobia. In this paper an attempt is made to see the story as intriguing, indeed important, for reasons that are not contingent upon the distribution of loyalties. Instead, the story's ambiguities and questionings concern issues of knowledge: certainty and perception, clarity and objectivity are challenged. Starting from the biblical phrase 'and his head was missing', the implications of the story for modern Western epistemology are explored through close readings of a number of Renaissance paintings on Judith by Caravaggio and Artemesia Gentileschi.

9 citations


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TL;DR: The authors examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research and concludes with the Kuhnian insight that a scientific discipline without a large number of thoroughly executed case studies is a discipline without systematic production of exemplars.
Abstract: This article examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: (1) Theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge; (2) One cannot generalize from a single case, therefore the single case study cannot contribute to scientific development; (3) The case study is most useful for generating hypotheses, while other methods are more suitable for hypotheses testing and theory building; (4) The case study contains a bias toward verification; and (5) It is often difficult to summarize specific case studies. The article explains and corrects these misunderstandings one by one and concludes with the Kuhnian insight that a scientific discipline without a large number of thoroughly executed case studies is a discipline without systematic production of exemplars, and that a discipline without exemplars is an ineffective one. Social science may be strengthened by the execution of more good case studies.

10,177 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge, one cannot generalize from a single case, therefore, the single-case study cannot contribute to scientific development, the case study is most useful for generating hypotheses, whereas other methods are more suitable for hypotheses testing and theory building, case study contains a bias toward verification, and it is often difficult to summarize specific case studies.
Abstract: This article examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: (a) theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge; (b) one cannot generalize from a single case, therefore, the single-case study cannot contribute to scientific development; (c) the case study is most useful for generating hypotheses, whereas other methods are more suitable for hypotheses testing and theory building; (d) the case study contains a bias toward verification; and (e) it is often difficult to summarize specific case studies. This article explains and corrects these misunderstandings one by one and concludes with the Kuhnian insight that a scientific discipline without a large number of thoroughly executed case studies is a discipline without systematic production of exemplars, and a discipline without exemplars is an ineffective one. Social science may be strengthened by the execution of a greater number of good case studies.

8,876 citations

Book
18 Jul 2003
TL;DR: Part 1: Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Texts, Social Events, and Social Practices 3. Intertextuality and Assumptions Part 2: Genres and Action 4. Genres 5. Meaning Relations between Sentences and Clauses 6. Discourses 8. Representations of Social Events Part 4: Styles and Identities 9. Modality and Evaluation 11. Conclusion
Abstract: Part 1: Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Texts, Social Events, and Social Practices 3. Intertextuality and Assumptions Part 2: Genres and Action 4. Genres 5. Meaning Relations between Sentences and Clauses 6. Types of Exchange, Speech Functions, and Grammatical Mood Part 3: Discourses and Representations 7. Discourses 8. Representations of Social Events Part 4: Styles and Identities 9. Styles 10. Modality and Evaluation 11. Conclusion

6,407 citations

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3,074 citations

01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The the practice of everyday life is universally compatible with any devices to read and is available in the digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly.
Abstract: Thank you very much for downloading the practice of everyday life. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look hundreds times for their chosen novels like this the practice of everyday life, but end up in harmful downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of coffee in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some malicious bugs inside their desktop computer. the practice of everyday life is available in our digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can download it instantly. Our books collection spans in multiple locations, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Kindly say, the the practice of everyday life is universally compatible with any devices to read.

2,932 citations