Open AccessRefleksje o powieści milicyjnej (na marginesie książki Doroty Skotarczak „Otwierać, milicja! O powieści kryminalnej w PRL”)
Author(s) -
Paweł Kaczyński
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acta universitatis wratislaviensis. literatura i kultura popularna
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0867-7441
DOI - 10.19195/0867-7441.26.8
Subject(s) - rhetorical question , convention , politics , set (abstract data type) , literature , sociology , reflection (computer programming) , history of literature , philosophy , epistemology , history , art , social science , computer science , political science , law , programming language
The paper is a set of thoughts on the milicja-novel, inspired by the book Otwierać, milicja! O powieści kryminalnej w PRL by Dorota Skotarczak. This book, being a work of a historian, treats the milicja-novel as a specific historical source, transformations of which are a reflection of changes in the social and political environment of the Polish People’s Republic. The author of the paper suggests other methodological possibilities, showing via chosen examples, that using methods of literary studies, e.g. considering the category of the literary convention or the rhetorical formation of the discourse, allows one to find complete responses to many research questions. Considering the literary methods of forming the message can also prevent an oversimplified view of the milicja-novel as a historical source. As a conclusion, further research on this genre of popular literature is postulated, while the author considers an interdisciplinary approach, connecting methods of at least two sciences: history and literary studies, and additionally others (e.g. bibliology), to be the most appropriate.