„Dark medicine” w wydaniu popkulturowym. Recenzja: Agnieszka Trześniewska-Nowak, „W kleszczach lęku. Thriller medyczny w literaturze i kulturze popularnej”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin 2022, ss. 268
The article discusses Agnieszka Trześniewska-Nowak’s monograph W kleszczach lęku. Thriller medyczny w literaturze i kulturze popularnej [The Turn of the Screw: Medical Thriller in Popular Literature and Culture]. It is the first study in the Polish humanities devoted to medical thriller. The work is...
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
2025-02-01
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| Series: | Literatura i Kultura Popularna |
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| Online Access: | https://wuwr.pl/lkp/article/view/17818 |
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| Summary: | The article discusses Agnieszka Trześniewska-Nowak’s monograph W kleszczach lęku. Thriller medyczny w literaturze i kulturze popularnej [The Turn of the Screw: Medical Thriller in Popular Literature and Culture]. It is the first study in the Polish humanities devoted to medical thriller. The work is structured in two parts: the first part outlines the interpretative contexts, the second one is devoted to the analysis of figures and motifs characteristic of the medical thriller. The book is complemented by an interview with one of the Polish authors of medical thriller — Klaudia Muniak.
The researcher assumes that the 19th-century experience of medicalization and medical-maladic discourse present in Victorian literature is fundamental for contemporary stories. At the same time, this proposal is not presented in a convincing way in terms of interpretation. Examples that support it (novels by Herbert George Wells, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson) are also controversial.
Despite its shortcomings, Trześniewska-Nowak’s book is nevertheless important as a pioneering study in the field that oversteps the boundaries of literary creation and enters the public imaginary. It also initializes a discussion by offering a preliminary systematization and description of the characteristics of the medical thriller. |
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| ISSN: | 0867-7441 2957-241X |