Reading Rembrandt : : Beyond the Word-Image Opposition / / Mieke Bal.

Reading Rembrandt questions the traditional boundaries between literary and visual analysis with close, side-by-side readings of some of the Dutch master’s works alongside paintings of the same era whose attribution is still debated. A new understanding of the role of visuality in our culture emerge...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Amsterdam Academic Archive
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Physical Description:1 online resource (518 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface for the AAA-edition
  • Reading "Rembrandt"
  • Contents
  • 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 Problem Of Myth
  • 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 Terms