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A classic work of Croatian literary historiography. The edition covers the periods from oral tradition to modernism, emphasizing the interference of oral and written literature, sociological context, aesthetic norms, and European connections.
Pavao Pavličić, the author of numerous literary and scientific works, in his latest book "A Small Typology of Modern Croatian Poetry" analyzes in detail all the characteristics of Croatian poetry from the modern period to the present day.
Žmegač does not only talk about the visual arts, but about the "spirit" of the era that permeates literature: sensuality, the moment, subjectivity, decorativeness, eroticism, decadence, but also the crisis of identity in the fin-de-siècle atmosphere.
This is one of the first synthetic analyses of the so-called Croatian fantasy generation (or "Borgesians", "young prose" with elements of fantasy) that appeared in the late 1960s and during the 1970s.
