REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CHILD IN THE UNIVERSAL ART AND LITERATURE
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CHILD IN THE UNIVERSAL ART AND LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: The status of the child has evolved in time, from all points of view: social, pedagogical, moral, literary, artistic, not having a single image of childhood, but several contradictory images, several systems of representations of childhood. Children were virtually ignored by both their contemporaries and later historians. A small but growing number of current researchers are working diligently to resolve this imbalance. Even so, most of the history of childhood still remains hidden, as most research focuses on the relatively recent past of the last centuries. The present study aims to highlight the representations of the child in arts and literature. We do not follow all the representations, but simply present different trends that can be observed in arts and literary works from various centuries, to evoke the role of the child in literature and transformations, the evolution of mentalities and its rendering in fiction.

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