http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode PDFDocument Zuccala, Brian, A Self-Reflexive Verista. Venezia, Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2020-06-26. https://polovea.sebina.it/SebinaOpac/resource/a-selfreflexive-verista-metareference-and-autofiction-in-luigi-capuanas-narrative/VEA3067784 hdl:11168/11.452355 https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:452355 Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing PHAIDRA University of Padua 2020 http://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/o:452356 application/pdf (1621879 bytes) eng Luigi Capuana. Post-Unification Italy. Fin de siècle. Rereading the canon. Gender and narrative. A Self-Reflexive Verista. Metareference and Autofiction in Luigi Capuana’s Narrative Zuccala, Brian With a Preface by Edwige Comoy Fusaro, this volume is one of few monographs on Italian post-Risorgimento author Luigi Capuana, and the first one written in English in more than forty years. Narratology and critical theory are combined with more ‘traditional’, historical-philological criticism to offer a radical rereading of the author’s narrative. Central to this study is the seemingly counter-intuitive notion of artistic self-reflexivity, which represents an innovative take on an author like Capuana, who has long been ‘canonised’ as a verista.