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.

The Artemisia files : Artemisia Gentileschi for feminists and other thinking people

Abstract: One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of Italian baroque painters. Featured alongside her father, Orazio Gentileschi, in a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artemisia has continued to stir interest though her position in the canon remains precarious, in part because her sensationalized life history has overshadowed her art. In The Artemisia Files, Mieke Bal and her coauthors look squarely at this early icon of feminist art history and the question of her status as an artist. Considering the events that shaped her life and reputation - her relationship to her father and her role as the victim in a highly publicized rape case during which she was tortured into giving evidence - the authors make the case that Artemisia's importance is due to more than her role as a poster child in the feminist attack on traditional art history; here, Artemisia emerges more fully as a highly original artist whose work is greater than the sum of the events that have traditionally defined her. The fresh, engaging discourse in The Artemisia Files will help to both renew the reputation of this artist on the merit of her work and establish her rightful place in the history of art.

Virginity: toward a feminist philology

Abstract: The biblical book of Judges is an extremely violent book. Murder is, one might suggest, the basic event of the book. Some of these murders have young, innocent women as their victims. The best known victim is Jephthah's daughter, sacrificed by her father in Chapter 11. It is said of her that 'she had known no man' (11:40). In the afterlife of the story, Jephthah's daughter has become the nameless virgin, precursor of Mary. In this paper, virginity will be explored as a construct, a danger, and a misunderstanding; as a negation, suspension, and transition: as a gift, a ritual and a taboo. The question to be answered is: what is the meaning of the idea of virginity, and how can philology help, how does it help in practice, to understand the position of Jephthah's daughter? The underlying issue is that of the relations between philology as an academic discipline, narrative, and the politics of gender. The choice of an ancient text to explore this question is motivated by the problem that, as I will contend, is central to these relations: that of distance, strangeness, otherness, and the tendency to counter these frightening features with naturalization, normalization, subsumation of the self. This tendency is generally cultural. As a consequence, the almost exclusive possession of the field of biblical scholarship by men and the same, to a sometimes slightly lesser extent, holds for other fields entails a systematic distortion of concepts which have a specific, genderrelated meaning. Virginity is such a concept and the analysis of this concept in situ , in a specific text wherein it has a crucial position, makes a good case for the general point I wish to make about the interest-orientedness of philology. A semiotic approach that replaces the word in its context and takes signifying systems other than the sheer linguistic-historical into account is needed. I will

On meanings and descriptions

Abstract: Although descriptive passages would appear to be of marginal importance in narrative texts, they are, in fact, of both logical and semantic necessity. Narratology, therefore, must take these segments into account. In this article, I shall survey the present situation in this field and compare rival points of view. I shall also offer several suggestions for analyzing descriptions. The following topics will be discussed: the nature of description as a specific type of discourse which makes it recognizable as such; the internal structure of description; the place and function of descriptions in the text as a whole. In the latter section, the semantic impact of descriptions in the overall meaning of narrative texts will be accounted for. This article is intended as a contribution to the theory of description as a part of narratology. It also has a didactic purpose, since it proposes a model for the analysis of texts which can be used for systematic text-study, both in a historical and a comparative perspective.

Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research

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.

Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research

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.

Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research

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

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