Bal: 152 books
Thinking in Film
The Politics of Video Art Installation According to Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila to understand movement as artistic practice and as affect. Through fifteen years...
Narratology
Introduction to the Theory of Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2009
Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become the international classic and comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts. Narratology is a systematic account of narrative techniques, methods, their transmission, and reception, in which Bal distills...
Cultural Forests of the Amazon
A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award.
Cultural Forests of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people transformed landscapes and managed resources in the most extensive region of tropical forests in the world.
Until...
by Adelardo López de Ayala, Golden Deer Classics, Alfonso Álvarez de Villasandino
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 9, 2018
ÍNDICE Adelardo López de Ayala Alfonso Álvarez de Villasandino Alfonso Onceno Alfredo Espino Álvaro de Luna Ana María Chouhy Aguirre Anastasio de Ochoa VIII.Andrés Bello IX.Ángel Saavedra, Duque de Rivas X.Antón de Montoro XI.Antonio de Villegas XII.Abu Ahmad ben Hayyun XIII.Adela Zamudio...
The Cloak of Dreams
Chinese Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A young man must choose whether to be close to his wife's soul or body. And two deaf mutes transcend their...
Travelling Concepts in the Humanities
A Rough Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2002
Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways...
Endless Andness
The Politics of Abstraction According to Ann Veronica Janssens
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In Endless Andness, Mieke Bal pioneers a new understanding of the political potential of abstract art which does not passively yield its meaning to the viewer but creates it anew - an art perceived not only through the retina but experienced viscerally. In this book, the third of her companion volumes...
Narratology
Introduction to the Theory of Narrative, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
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...
by Cristóbal Colón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 25, 2012
3 Obras de Cristóbal Colón Navegante y explorador del Nuevo Mundo (1451-1506)
Este libro electrónico presenta una colección de 3 Obras de Cristóbal Colón en texto completo. Un índice interactivo permite acceder directamente a la obra seleccionada....
Einfach Paleo
So wurde ich durch die Steinzeit-Ernährung gesund
Language: German
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Manchmal müssen wir im Leben zurück auf null gehen, um wieder ganz von vorn beginnen und einen Neuanfang setzen zu können. Genau das ist meine Geschichte. Sie führte mich zurück bis an die Anfänge der Menschheit, nachdem bei mir eine Autoimmunerkrankung diagnostiziert wurde. Wir alle tragen...
A Queerly Joyful Noise
Choral Musicking for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
A Queerly Joyful Noise examines how choral singing can be both personally transformative and politically impactful. As they blend their different voices to create something beautiful, LGBTIQ singers stand together and make themselves heard. Comparing queer choral performances to the uses of group...
Double Exposures
The Practice of Cultural Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
A feminist literary theorist, specialist in Rembrandt, and a scholar with a knack for reading Old Testament stories, Mieke Bal weaves a tapestry of signs and meanings that enrich our senses. Her subject is the act of showing, the gesture of exposing to view. In a museum, for example, the object is...
by Cornelis Bal
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Have you ever wondered just how our current global economy came aboutand how its laws and regulations rule and influence our lives? In this commonsense discussion of world economics, author Cornelis Bal presents a brief exploration of these questions and offers suggestions for how we might change...
by Cristóbal Colón
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Diario de Viaje Cristóbal Colón, navegante y explorador del Nuevo Mundo (1451-1506)
Este libro electrónico presenta «Diario de Viaje», de Cristóbal Colón, en texto completo. Un índice interactivo permite acceder directamente al capítulo...