PODOBY ARGUMENTÁCIE V KONTEXTE FORMOVANIA SA GENERAČNÉHO SPORU "MLADÍ" VERZUS "STARÍ" (ČASOPIS HLAS)

The subject of the paper is the generation relations in the context of the Hlasist movement, which is seen as one of the modernist phenomena in Slovak society at the turn of the 19th century. The differentiation of the political spectrum, which was brought by the two Hlasist generations, meant introducing new opinions on the arts and culture and also reflection on the images and ideas of Slovak society. The goal of the analysis of particular articles and essays published in two chosen periodicals (Národnie noviny, Hlas) and contemporary private correspondence of the individuals involved is to grasp the literary and historical process of the generation exchange at the first stage, define the relation with the domestic literary tradition (on the axis accepting – compromising – confronting – rejecting) and to show the fact that the generation relations of the individuals involved and their contemporaries are much more layered and complicated than it may seem at the first sight.