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Description for Loving Yusuf
Paperback. Sets the "Genesis" tale to the different version told in the Qur'an and the depictions of it by Rembrandt, and explores how Thomas Mann's retelling in "Joseph and His Brothers" reworks these versions. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DS; HRCG9. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In "Loving Yusuf", Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and text, using the same story - in which Joseph spurns the advances of his master's wife, who then falsely accuses him of rape - as her point of departure. She juxtaposes the "Genesis" tale to the rather different version told in the Qur'an and the depictions of it by Rembrandt, and explores how Thomas Mann's great ... Read more
When Mieke Bal reread the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife as an adult, she was struck by differences between her childhood memories of a moral tale and what she read today. In "Loving Yusuf", Bal seeks to resolve this clash between memory and text, using the same story - in which Joseph spurns the advances of his master's wife, who then falsely accuses him of rape - as her point of departure. She juxtaposes the "Genesis" tale to the rather different version told in the Qur'an and the depictions of it by Rembrandt, and explores how Thomas Mann's great ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226035871
SKU
V9780226035871
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Ref
99-15
About Mieke Bal
Mieke Bal is Academy Professor in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and cofounder of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Among her many books are, most recently, The Artemisia Files: Artemisia Gentileschi for Feminists and Other Thinking People and A Mieke Bal Reader, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Loving Yusuf
"By juxtaposing Qur'anic and biblical versions of the same story, Bal asks us to consider more than one way of looking at gender, literature, art, culture, and religious imagination. Her compendious erudition and the ease with which she traverses historical periods, cultural frames, and intellectual and academic discourses are breathtaking." - Esther Fuchs, University of Arizona"