A Mieke Bal reader Analyzing literature in culture Narration and focalization Story of W All in the family: familiarity and estrangement according to Marcel Proust Over writing as un writing: descriptions world making and novelistic time Interdisciplinary methodology Scared to death Telling showing showing off Enfolding feminism Intention Visual analysis Telling objects: a narrative perspective on collecting Reading art Reading Bathsheba: from mastercodes to misfits Postmodern theology The rape of narrative and the narrative of rape: speech acts and body language in judges Lots of writing Postmodern theology as cultural analysis Religious canon and literary identity Cultural analysis in an expanded field Meanwhile: literature in an expanded field