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Luigi Capuana: Experimental Fiction and Cultural Mediation in Post-Risorgimento Italy

A cura di:

Annamaria Pagliaro
Monash University, Australia - ORCID: 0000-0002-6513-5921

Brian Zuccala
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Collana: Studi e saggi ISSN 2704-6478 (print) - ISSN 2704-5919 (online)

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Scientific board: Studi di italianistica moderna e contemporanea nel mondo anglofono / Studies in Modern and Contemporary Italianistica in the Anglophone World

Editor-in-Chief: Francese Joseph Michigan State University, United States

Scientific board: 15 members, 13 research institutions, 7 nations
Authors: 7 authors, 8 editors
Books: 7 monographs, 4 edited books
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Luigi Capuana: Experimental Fiction and Cultural Mediation in Post-Risorgimento Italy. The studies in this collection revisit established critical positions which confine Luigi Capuana’s work within the orbits of Naturalism and Positivism. A variety of theoretical readings in the volume investigate how the author’s experimentalism and eclectic interests respond to positivist ideology, the limitations of scientific practices, and the conflicts and anxieties of the fin de siècle which arise from a change in intellectual attitudes towards new ways of interpreting reality. The volume’s three sections focus on cultural mediation and the construction of socio-literary identities, gender representation and metaliterature, and on the author’s experimentation with the natural, supernatural and fantastic. Each section illustrates how the search for the new and experimentalism constitute driving forces in the author’s artistic investigation and production, making his work an important source for a new reading of the fin de siècle’s epistemological revision.