-...craft and crafty rub shoulders; and... the words artifice, artifact, articulation and art all come from the same ancient root, a word meaning to join, to fit, and to make.- This quotation, from a review Margaret Atwood once wrote, fits her own literary craftsmanship. Drawing on research into Atwood's unpublished drafts and typescripts and on interviews, "To Join, to Fit, and to Make" investigates how Atwood plays with the relationship between form and meaning, and the extent to which her narrative designs reflect the themes of her fiction. The author demonstrates how Atwood lets the very...

Two women whose lives ran along exceptionally parallel lines - two works that could hardly be more different. Their lives have often been compared but "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" have never been the object of a systematic comparative reading based on modern narrative theory. This study offers for the first time a combination of two approaches: The concepts of recent narrative theories are applied to a comparative reading of "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights." Particular emphasis will be given to the narrative devices employed by the two sisters with regard to text, story and...

Questo studio ha per obiettivo di descrivere ed analizzare in modo sistematico la televisione come impresa televisiva. Esamina gli elementi che la caratterizzano il prodotto, le risorse e la catena del valore prima nella fase analogica e poi in quella digitale. Quali sono i caratteri economici della nuova impresa televisiva e i suoi possibili modelli di business? E ancora possibile ed appropriato parlare d impresa televisiva? Per rispondere a tali domande si e provveduto ad esaminare piu da vicino il caso inglese di BSkyB, che costituisce un punto di osservazione davvero ideale,...