Starość i młodość jako nieustannie aktualne, uniwersalne motywy literackie i kulturowe – wprowadzenie do zbioru studiów

Abstract

The study presents selected examples of functioning in the literature and culture the category of senility and youth in the idea of Antiquity, as well as examples from the circle of literature of Renaissance and Baroque (in the context especially of Parenetics). The versatility of these categories present also proverbs existing in such works of culture as Erazm of Rotterdam’s Adagia and Ezop’s fables. The examples of meetings, but also confrontations, and well as independent functioning motifs of senility and youth in the art are among others paintings of Teodor Axentowicz and Wlastimil Hofman. The study also pays attention to the transformations, which have occurred in the functioning of senility and youth in the culture of recent years, including changes in defining their borders. Deliberations present afterwards course of conference devoted to the titled issue and also they describe motifs, which have guided to group studies collected in the volume.