Balladyna (pop)
Balladina (pop)

Author(s): Arkadiusz Bagłajewski
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Słowacki; Balladina; reception; cultural recycling; detective stories
Summary/Abstract: The subject of the interpretation are detective stories by eight authors, collected in the anthology 'Balladyna' (Poznań 2019), which were inspired by Juliusz Słowacki’s drama. Using the concept of cultural recycling as a strategy for the use (exploitation) of a Romantic work, a classification of references in the area of the pop culture genre (especially the motif of sisterhood, and guilt and punishment) was made. It was pointed out that the most interesting references take place in the situation of a departure from the criminal scheme (crime fiction).

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