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A Postcolonial Woman’s Encounter with Moses and MiriamAdapting Bal’s Focalization Methodology

A Postcolonial Woman’s Encounter with Moses and Miriam: Adapting Bal’s Focalization Methodology [This chapter will set out Mieke Bal’s theory of focalization, which provides the critical underpinnings for my particular hermeneutic.1 There are a number of advantages in grounding my reading in Bal’s critical theory: First, it helps demonstrate that the work is rigorously critical since focalization as a system of literary analysis is well respected in the domain of academic criticism. To appropriate from the words of Stephen Moore, such an integrated reading approach enables the reader-interpreter to “navigate successfully between the Scylla of insufficient personalism, on the one hand, and the Charybdis of insufficient criticism on the other.”2] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Postcolonial Woman’s Encounter with Moses and MiriamAdapting Bal’s Focalization Methodology

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
ISBN
978-1-349-55261-0
Pages
95 –108
DOI
10.1057/9781137543929_5
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[This chapter will set out Mieke Bal’s theory of focalization, which provides the critical underpinnings for my particular hermeneutic.1 There are a number of advantages in grounding my reading in Bal’s critical theory: First, it helps demonstrate that the work is rigorously critical since focalization as a system of literary analysis is well respected in the domain of academic criticism. To appropriate from the words of Stephen Moore, such an integrated reading approach enables the reader-interpreter to “navigate successfully between the Scylla of insufficient personalism, on the one hand, and the Charybdis of insufficient criticism on the other.”2]

Published: Nov 28, 2015

Keywords: Direct Speech; Focalized Person; Focalization Level; External Focalizer; External Narrator

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