«¿Más de la adaptación?» es la pregunta que se plantean los editores de este volumen y alrededor de la cual se vertebran los quince estudios que reúne. Un volumen vario que pretende ofrecer una visión amplía y abierta mediante la cual encuadrar los fenómenos transmediales atendiendo tanto a rasgos de continuidad como de ruptura entre las formas, códigos y media.

Questo articolo verte su di una specifica fase della storia del genere romanzesco in Italia. Allo scopo di fare chiarezza sulla problematica condizione statutaria e tipologica ad esso connesso verranno passate in rassegna le proposte elaborate da alcuni dei più rappresentativi narratori del secondo Ottocento. Si analizzeranno pertanto una serie di documenti che esemplificano diversi modi di concepire e di costruire il romanzo in Italia. Attraverso questi testi si metterà in evidenza inoltre il progressivo radicamento della prosa narrativa in una cultura fortemente condizionata da una tradizione classicistico-umanistica prettamente lirica.

This paper aims to study the Italian ghost story entitled A Dead Man's Bone, included in Tarchetti's Fantastic Tales (1869) to illustrate, by means of this specific case, both the way and the purpose of the reception of the Gothic and Fantastic in Italian narrative. For this reason, it is necessary to frame the textual analysis within the historical and cultural coordinates of the post-Unification years, in order to, first of all, clarify the fact that the operation ought to be evaluated in a specific ideological and compositional context rather than from a thematic point of view. In this regard, the study of A Dead Man's Bone intends to highlight that the most relevant outcomes of Tarchetti's rewriting of a ghost story by Théophile Gautier have to be appreciated as the opening for new experiments in narrative forms which root in a rapidly changing situation and, nurtured by the disillusionment of the post-unification years. Moreover, the author's use of codes and conventions of a specific subgenre of modern Fantastic, such as the ghost story, is also related with his direct involvement in pseudoscientific movements as Mesmerism and Spiritism. It goes without saying that the author's effort to innovate narrative forms is meant to convey a personal interpretation of the present by means of a new kind of realism in art.

Reseña del libro El ruedo ibérico, de Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (ed. de Diego Martínez Torrón, Colección Letras Hispánicas, Madrid, Ediciones Cátedra, 2017).