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.

Death & dissymmetry: the politics of coherence in the Book of Judges

Abstract: Combining literary criticism and feminist analysis, "Death and Dissymmetry" radically reinterprets not only the Book of Judges but also the tradition of its reception and understanding in the West. In Mieke Bal's account, Judges documents the Israelite culture learning to articulate itself in a decisive period of transition. Counter to standard readings of Judges, Bal's interpretation demonstrates that the book has a political and ideological coherence in which the treatment of women plays a pivotal role. Bal concentrates here not on the assassinations and battles that rage through Judges but on the violence in the domestic lives of individual characters, particularly sexual violence directed at women. Her skillful reading reveals that murder, in this text, relates to gender and reflects a social structure that is inherently contradictory. By foregrounding the stories of women and subjecting them to subtle narrative analysis, she is able to expose a set of preoccupations that are essential to the sense of these stories but are not articulated in them. Bal thereby develops a "countercoherence" in conflict with the apparent emphases of Judges the politics, wars, and historiography that have been the constant focus of commentators on the book. "Death and Dissymmetry" makes an important contribution to the development of a feminist method of interpreting ancient texts, with consequences for religious studies, ancient history, literary theory, and gender studies."

Lethal love : feminist literary readings of biblical love stories

Abstract: Preface Introduction 1 The Emergence of the Lethal Woman, or the Use of Hermeneutic Models Pregnancy and the Limits of Power The Use of Interpretation The Use of Form The Use of Frame-Theory The Use of Narratology The Use of the Text The Use of Symmetry The Use of Frames The Use of the Subject The Use of Competition 2 Delilah Decomposed: SamsonOs Talking Cure and the Thetoric of Subjectivity Reading Heroes Questions Asked and Problems Revealed The Emergence of the Hero Samson and Delilah SamsonOs Death Who Is Samson? Samson, Patriarchy, and Social Reality 3 Heroism and Proper Names, or the Fruits of Analogy Balancing the Tension Starting from a Detail Narrativization of the Proper Name In Search of the Subject In Search of Foundations, or the Subjects versus the Law The Unconscious Performing Speech Acts: Symptoms Reflecting Reflection 4One Woman, Many Men, and the Dialectic of Chronology The Limits of Higher Criticism On the Margins of Anachrony: Paralepsis, or the Deviation from the Straight Path Tamar from Father to Son, or On Subversion Juxtaposition, or Similarity behind Displacement OnanOs Offspring, or How to Conceive Safely TamarOs Matchmaking: The Mirror Stage 5 Sexuality, Sin, and Sorrow: The Emergence of the Female Character Characterizing Character The Emergence of a Myth: Collocation The Emergence of the Human Body: Unaccomplishment The Emergence of the Female Body: Sexual Difference The Emergence of Activity: Sin? The Emergence of Character: Sorrow The Effect of Naming Afterword References Index

Notes on narrative embedding

Abstract: First, the notion of metadiscourse as proposed by Genette (1972:239 e.s.). This notion has given rise to some interesting discussions. Many researchers have been of the opinion that Genette was wrong to use the term to mean the opposite of what it traditionally means. For if in the logico-linguistic tradition the prefix meta-indicates an activity having for its object an activity of the same class, the term metadiscourse should signify: discourse on the discourse, and metanarrative: a narrative on the narrative. The metadiscourse would then always have the function of commentary. Genette's inversion and I think it is less arbitrary than it appears to be produces a more or less opposite

Working with Concepts

Abstract: Interdisciplinarity in the humanities should seek its heuristic and methodological basis in concepts rather than in methods. Concepts are the tools of intersubjectivity: They facilitate discussion on the basis of a common language. But concepts are not fixed. They travel – between disciplines, between individual scholars, between historical periods and between geographically dispersed academic communities. Between disciplines, their meaning, reach and operational value differ. These processes of differing need to be assessed before, during and after each ‘trip’. All of these forms of travel render concepts flexible. It is this changeability that becomes part of their usefulness for a new methodology that is neither stultifying and rigid nor arbitrary or ‘sloppy’. This paper aims to explore the value of such unsettled concepts for interdisciplinary work in the Humanities.

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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