and reconstructing the historical relationships between the genre where it initially crystallized (mélodrame) and the contemporary or later genres where it spread, in particular romantic opera, realist-naturalist novel, American film and television melodrama, psychoanalysis and European auteur cinema, contemporary novel. Narratology and Metamodernism In his very first book Story and Plot (1998) and in the following The Narrative Text (2005) he explored possibilities of classical narratology to define the recurring structures of narrative texts in modern, modernist and postmodernist traditions. In 2015, after a decade of academic courses and studies, in his book USA Narrative 1984-2014: Novels, Films, Graphic Novels, TV Series, Video-games etc., he outlined the story of contemporary United States narrative fiction. In 2017, in his book Telling today. Metamodernism between narratology, hermeneutics and intermediality, starting from the previous exploration and extending it beyond the limits of USA culture, he tried to develop a theory of the metamodern narratives. Italo Svevo In 2004 he carried out the philological edition of La coscienza di Zeno and of the unfinished forth novel by Italo Svevo (Il vecchione or Il vegliardo), within The Complete Works of Italo Svevo (3 voll., Milano, Mondadori, ed. by Mario Lavagetto), which imposed itself as the basic edition for any later Svevo's critics. In 2011 he wrote Italo Svevo, a monographic book on the author. Bibliography Books Normal People. Gender e generazioni in transito tra letteratura e media (Normal People. Genders and generations in transit between literature and media), ed. by Fabio Vittorini and Federico Bortolini, Bologna, Pàtron, 2022 Melodramma. Un percorso intermediale tra teatro, romanzo, cinema e serie tv (Melodrama. An intermedia path between theater, novel, cinema and TV series), Bologna, Pàtron, 2020 Nuove narrazioni mediali. Musica, immagine, racconto (New media narrations. Music, image, story), ed. by Fabio Vittorini, Bologna, Pàtron, 2019 Raccontare oggi. Metamodernismo tra narratologia, ermeneutica e intermedialità (Telling today. Metamodernism between narratology, hermeneutics and intermediality), Bologna, Pàtron, 2017 Narrativa USA 1984-2014: romanzi, film, graphic novel, serie tv, videogame e altro (USA Narrative 1984-2014: Novels, Films, Graphic Novels, TV Series, Video-games etc.), Bologna, Pàtron, 2015 Italo Svevo, Milano, Mondadori, 2011 Il sogno all'opera. Racconti onirici e testi melodrammatici (Dream in Opera. Oneiric Tales and Operatic Texts), Palermo, Sellerio, 2010 Il testo narrativo (The Narrative Text), Roma, Carrocci, 2005 La soglia dell'invisibile. Percorsi del Macbeth: Shakespeare, Verdi, Welles (The Threshold of the Invisible. A Journey into Macbeth: Shakespeare, Verdi, Welles), Roma, Carocci, 2005 Italo