L’Europe réunit une grande variété de langues et de cultures. À la fois une et plurielle, elle véhicule un rêve culturel d’intégration. Comment faire vivre ensemble des langues, des littératures, des cultures, en respectant leur diversité ?

Image-Thinking proposes a new model of synthesis of creative and intellectual work that will benefit practitioners, students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.

Narratology in Practice opens up the well-known theory of narrative to substantiate the theory’s interdisciplinary claim. 

In this book Mieke, 'discusses those places in narrative literature where theoretical conceptualizations intersect with detailed analysis of literary texts, taking into account what images emerge from them.'

The book develops the idea that exhibiting is a significant form of the contemporary. 

This book accompanies the first comprehensive solo exhibition of Meike's video installations, which are currently on display in the Museum Jan Cunen in Oss, the Netherlands.

Meike Bal's most recent piece of video art, a sixteen-channel installation, establishes connections between Cervantes' seventeenth century novel Don Quijote and concerns of the present world. 

At the cross-road of present and past, in Het geel van Marcel Proust (Marcel Proust’s Yellow) Mieke Bal searches for the importance of art for current issues and questions.

"When we do give meaning to what we see, we are aware that we do so or (mostly) not, but we do it, constantly, so that these things enable us to communicate, reflect, fantasize; in short, live socially and individually, without separation between these two domains. But how, exactly, does this work? "

In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art through an intense engagement with the work of sculptor Ann Veronica Janssens. 

‘Thinking in Film’ is the most compelling analysis of Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s art to date. It is a contribution to thinking by extending the ideas of what is presentable, perceivable and thus knowable.

Tiempos trastornados ofrece por primera vez en lengua castellana algunas de las intervenciones más relevantes de la producción de Mieke Bal, que incluyen sus textos más recientes sobre los ensayos visuales, el análisis fílmico y el trabajo de comisariado.

Kulturanalyse heißt für Mieke Bal einem weiten Kulturbegriff zu folgen und theoretische Kategorien, Kunstwerke und gesellschatfliche Praxen gleichermaßen als kulturelle Objekte zu lesen.

A published anthology of the video-art exhibition, featuring 22 international artists such as Keren Cytter, William Kentridge and Mona Hatoum at the Zuiderzee Museum.

The dictionary. The ubiquitous high-gloss fashion ad. The fraught relationship between artist and critic. Sleeping Beauty ties these disparate strands of our everyday lives together only to strip away everything we thought we knew about each of them.

Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born artist, addresses the politics of memory and forgetting in work that embraces fraught situations in dangerous places. 

Mieke Bal’s essay provides an extensive exploration of the issues of time and materiality relevant to Jeannette Christensen’s work. 

Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from narratology and critical methods to Hebrew Bible scholarship and visual culture. A Mieke Bal Reader brings together for the first time a representative collection of her work that distills her broad interests and areas of expertise.

'Travelling Concepts in the Humanities’ is intended as a guidebook for interdisciplinary cultural analysis in the humanities. In this challenging work, Mieke Bal analyses a variety of concepts - such as meaning, metaphor, narrative, and myth - that ‘travel’ from one discipline to another.'

Using the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, in which Joseph spurns the advances of his master’s wife, who then falsely accuses him of attempted rape, Mieke Bal juxtaposes retellings of the text — in addition to the Bible, the Qur’an, the visual art of Rembrandt and the prose of Thomas Mann

Mieke Bal’s analysis is focused on the eerie sense of very real and very unreal that the paintings emanate. She considers this the heart of Balthus’s work.

This book accompanies an exhibition Bal curated for the Munch Museum, Oslo, in Spring 2017. But it is not a catalogue. The exhibition, and the book, integrate Munch’s brilliant modernist paintings with a reflection on modern sensibilities as it also appears in the writings of Gustave Flaubert, especially his groundbreaking modernist, perhaps even postmodernist novel Madame Bovary, from 1856

In her thirty-sixth book, the eminent Dutch cultural theorist Mieke Bal (1946, Heemstede) explores the new language that Indian artist Nalini Malani (1946, Karachi) has been developing since early this century with her shadow plays.

Auch wenn die Kulturwissenschaften gemeinhin als neue Leitwissenschaft innerhalb der Geisteswissenschaften ausgerufen werden, so fehlt es ihnen doch nach wie vor an einer klaren theoretischen Profilierung und an einem fest umrissenen Forschungsfeld. 

Too vast in scale to be viewed all at once, this elusive structure resists simple narration. It fits no genre and all of them - architecture, sculpture, installation.

In Janssens’ Installation wird die Unendlichkeit, die durch etwas dargestellt wird, das die Aussicht versperrt, abgewandelt in der zunehmenden Langsamkeit der Wahrnehmung. 

In this collection Bal outlines a theory of visual experience as an ongoing struggle between cultural modes that seek to determine and confine the visual subject.

As period, as style, as sensibility, the Baroque remains elusive, its definition subject to dispute. Perhaps this is so in part because baroque vision resists separation of mind and body, form and matter, line and color, image and discourse.

Lili Dujourie has added nuances to my thoughts about the historical Baroque. In this sense, the position of her art in the history of Western culture is also ‘meta-‘: an analytical, critical commentary on what precedes it. 

Que peut être une image écrite, comment peut-on la lire? L’étude qui suit est consacrée à cette question de méthode, élaborée à travers une lecture ‘visuelle’ de Proust. 

Mieke Bal shows how central to the study of culture are acts of exposure - of presenting, revealing, laying bare the ‘truth’ of the cultural objects one analyzes. 

Ingebeeld, zei Freud. Uitgebeeld, zeggen feministen, tot cultuurgoed gemaakt en daardoor gestimuleerd. Het denken over verkrachting wordt sterk bepaald door de uitbeeldingen ervan in de cultuur, van bijbelteksten, klassieken, schilderijen, tot de film van vandaag.

‘On Meaning-Making’ addresses basic questions in semiotics, the theory of signs. What is semiotics? How is it used? How is it taught? To these questions Mieke Bal brings the perspective of a pioneer - a scholar and teacher who has grown from a formalist specializing in narrative theory into an interdisciplinary semiotician.

‘Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition’ explores the potential for an interdisciplinary methodology between literature and visual art.

In one absorbing, readable volume master narratologist Mieke Bal has collected and annotated essays that best illustrate her incisive approach to story-telling.

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.

Woman’s song or man’s epic? This is the question Mieke Bal raises concerning the ancient Song of Deborah in Judges 5 and the later narrative in Judges 4. In her trenchantly argued work, Bal focuses on the two tales of the enemy general Sisera’s murder by the Israelite heroine Jael.

‘Lethal Love’ is, in Mieke Bal’s words, ‘first and foremost a study of biblical love stories and how we read them.’

'Over literatuur’ is een inleiding in de literatuurwetenschap en in de analyse van literaire teksten.

La narratologie et la bible se ressemblent, au point qu’une relecture des deux peut être menée de front. Discours d’autorité, elles se prêtent toutes deux à I’attitude simpliste de la pensée binaire.

De bijbel kan beschouwd worden als de meest invloedrijke verzameling literaire teksten van onze cultuur. Zo worden ze in dit boekje dan ook behandeld.

Literatuurwetenschap, de systematische bestudering van literatuur en van de plaats van literatuur in de maatschappij, is een wetenschapsgebied dat de laatste tijd steeds meer in de belangstelling komt te staan. Dit boek wil een inleiding zijn tot dit gebied.

Tien jaar geleden werd dit boek voor het eerst gepubliceerd, en de vele herdrukken bewijzen dat er nog steeds veel vraag naar is. In deze tien jaar heeft het vak echter niet stil gestaan.

Already a seminal work and international classic, Narratology is revised and updated in this third edition to include an expanded analysis of film and treatments of modernist texts. 

This book, written in French, was my first foray into thinking about the connection between narrative structure and reader manipulation. Close readings of two novels by Marguerite Duras, one by Flaubert, and one by Colette constitute the arena where I attempted to generalise about structure.

Complexité d’un roman populaire’ est une tentative paradoxale. L’auteur cherche à montrer comment un roman populaire, simple en apparence, doit sa popularité justement à ses structures complexes, à une ambiguïté profonde et cachée des sentiments et des thèmes.