Ambiguous Endeavours

This dissertation examines how melodrama, defined as a complex, distinctly modern and transnational mode of storytelling, has influenced the area of Polish Holocaust representation since the late 1970s till the present. Within a methodological frame that seeks to combine textual and contextual analysis, the study poses a set of questions that can be asked of the melodramatic mode’s narrative structures and stylistic devices, their signifying and functionality, in literature and film. Other key i