Aesthetics of the past in the transmission for the youngest, in the light of the cultural phylogenesis

Abstract

A character of the history’s transmission depends on the aesthetics of the past in literature for the youngest. Works, addressed to a young audience in different age, allow to maintain the rules of the cultural phylogenesis, understood as a need of acquiring the cultural and social competences by successive human generations during their whole life, in a specific order (inter alia – with priority of the natural ways of communication before the unnatural, a book before an e-book). Aesthetisation of the past contains: (1) synecdoche as a visual clue in the illustrations contained in the works concerning th Second World War (series: Wojny dorosłych – historie dzieci (War of Adults, Stories of Children); (2) biography strategies used in the literature for young readers by Anna Czerwińska-Rydel.