What has been not written by Kraszewski

The text is a review of Matthew Skucha’s book that attempts to apply the methodology of gender criticism and feminist literary criticism in reading the late novels by Ignacy Kraszewski. The author of the review appreciates competence and efficiency of the interpretation by Skucha, who managed to reveal unconscious, non-literary determinants of Kraszewski’s prose resulting from entanglement in the patriarchal system of cultural behaviours associated with women and men in the 19th century. But she also draws attention to the dangers connected with reductional dimension of such interpellation.

 

The text is a review of Matthew Skucha’s book that attempts to apply the methodology of gender criticism and feminist literary criticism in reading the late novels by Ignacy Kraszewski. The author of the review appreciates competence and efficiency of the interpretation by Skucha, who managed to reveal unconscious, non-literary determinants of Kraszewski’s prose resulting from entanglement in the patriarchal system of cultural behaviours associated with women and men in the 19th century. But she also draws attention to the dangers connected with reductional dimension of such interpellation.