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Routledge
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Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word-Image Opposition explores the potential for an interdisciplinary methodology between visual art and literature. In a series of close analyses of works by Rembrandt, works as we see them today, through all the ways of seeing and commenting that precede, and texts related to those works, Mieke Bal questions the traditional boundaries between literary and visual... Read more
List of Illustrations, Preface,Introduction,1 Beyond the Word-Image Opposition,2 Visual Rhetoric: The Semiotics of Rape,3 Visual Storytelling: Fathers and Sons and the,4 Between Focalization and Voyeurism: The Representation of Vision,5 Recognition: Reading Icons, Seeing Stories,6 Textuality and Realism,7 Self-Reflection as a Mode of Reading ,8 Blindness or Insight? Psychoanalysis and Visual Art,9 Blindness as Insight: The Powers of Horror,10 Dead Flesh, or The Smell of Painting, Notes, References, Index of Names and Titles,Index of Subject
Biography
Mieke Bal is a Professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and is based at the University of Amsterdam.
