Chapter I: From Drama to Narrative

Judith Davies

From The Realism of Luigi Capuana: Theory and Practice in the Development of Late Nineteenth-Century Italian Realism (1979), pp. 10-40, doi:10.59860/td.c6b27f5

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Part of the book: The Realism of Luigi Capuana

Judith Davies

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Abstract.  1. The Problem of a National Theatre; 2. The dramma storico and the commedia contemporanea: Manzoni and De Sanctis; 3. Hegelianism and Positivism: the Discovery of the Novel; 4. The Psychological Analysis of Profili di donne. Note cues in this chapter refer to endnotes in the end matter of the book.

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