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I would like to acknowledge and thank the following institutions and persons : the University at Buffalo and the many fine faculty there with whom I studied—among them, Rodolphe Gasché for his pioneering work and intellectual example, Neil Schmitz, and above all Henry Sussman for his vivacious support, inspiration, and friendship in all phases of the present work and throughout my career; the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, where much of a first draft of this book was written; Tom Wortham and UCLA, where, as a part-time visiting associate professor, most of the final draft was finally done—and among the many colleagues who warmly received me there, especially Helen Deutsch, Eric Jager, Mark McGurl, and above all Kenneth Reinhard; St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico , and its erstwhile dean, James Carey, who made it possible for me to take such a long leave and who has supported my endeavors and stimulated my thinking throughout all the years that we have known one another ; readers and discussants of various chapters and drafts at my home institution and elsewhere, especially Jay Lampert, Thomas Scally, Frank Hunt, Mark Cooper, Dilip Yogasundram, and Bernard Rhie; Jacques Derrida , who, characteristically, generously helped this work get an initial hearing; John McCumber, who oversaw it coming to this series, and both of the remarkably receptive readers of it for Northwestern University Press; and, nonpareil, she whose contributions to this and so much else are far too great to detail, my be-all, Jennifer Fleissner. Acknowledgments xi ...

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