La novella dal 1890 al 1929: tipologie, apparati editoriali, modelli di lettura

Is there an Italian theory of short narrative forms? How does the publication of short fiction in newspapers and magazines shape its formal development? And how can we trace the historical evolution from the novella verista to the modernist one, and from there to the expansive prose model that emerged in 1930s Italy? This book seeks to address these questions from both a diachronic and a typological perspective. It explores several key issues: the formal configuration of the modern Italian no...