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The book English Literature presents an overview of the development of English literature through the work of several authors. It covers key periods, writers, and stylistic trends, providing a systematic insight into the historical and aesthetic context.
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.
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.
The status of the lyrical subject in the canzonier of Đora Držić
The first third of the book provides reviews of Russian literature (Chekhov, Ljeskov, Pushkin...). The second chapter deals with world literature (Balzac, Stendhal, Roland...), and the third chapter contains general articles.
"Formality and meaning" is a book of essays.