Double Exposures the Subject of Cultural Analysis
- List Price: $54.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish date: 07/01/1996
Description:
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. Whether what is placed on public view is a picture, a poem, or another scholar's point of view, the rhetoric of persuasion in the humanities makes its claim to truth through specific conventions of display whose structures of power and authority are all too often hidden or masked from view.
Expand description
Please Wait