Women on the Track of Felony: Authoresses and Heroines (Ewa i złoty kot byJoanna Szymczyk and Moc i cesarzowa by Katarzyna Gacek & Agnieszka Szczepańska) Cover Image

Kobiety na tropie zbrodni: autorki i bohaterki (Joanna Szymczyk Ewa i złoty kot, Katarzyna Gacek i Agnieszka Szczepańska Moc i cesarzowa)
Women on the Track of Felony: Authoresses and Heroines (Ewa i złoty kot byJoanna Szymczyk and Moc i cesarzowa by Katarzyna Gacek & Agnieszka Szczepańska)

Author(s): Beata Walęciuk-Dejneka
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: woman; crime novel; felony; history of Polish literature

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses two examples from Polish contemporary criminal literature: Moc i cesarzowa by Katarzyna Gacek and Agnieszka Szczepańska and Ewa i złoty kot by Joanna Szymczyk.Both novels focus on the problem of heroines on the track of felony. The author of this article presents this issue in the context of earlier publications belonging to criminal literature, first considering it in general terms and then referring to Polish titles.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 159-168
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish