Since the turn of this century, we have witnessed a significant expanse in the field of transhistorical exhibition practices. A range of curatorial efforts have emerged in which objects and artefacts from various periods and art-historical and cultural contexts are combined in display, in an effort to question and expand traditional museological notions such as chronology, context, and category. Such experiments in transcending art-historical boundaries can potentially result in both fresh in...

Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers interpret narrative text, the fourth edition of Narratology is a guide for students and scholars seeking to analyze narratives of any language, period, and region with clear, systematic, and reliable concepts. With the addition of in-depth analysis of ...

Beelden activeren ons denken en resulteren zo in denkbeelden. Op het kruispunt van heden en verleden speurt Mieke Bal in Het geel van Marcel Proust naar de relevantie van kunst voor actuele vragen en problemen. In deze zoektocht ontmoeten we zowel literaire als beeldende kunstwerken, zowel oude meesters als kunstenaars van nu.

Via Proust en Flaubert, Munch en Bourgeois, de Bijbel en de Koran, wordt de lezer uitgenodigd opnieuw na te denken over geschiedenis en anachronisme, biografie en perso...