Double Exposures: The Practice of Cultural Analysis

by Mieke Bal

Book Overview

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 on display, made visually available. "That's how it is," the display proclaims. But who says so?
Bal's subjects are displays from the American Museum...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415917042
• ISBN13: 9780415917049
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.0"