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Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge Liliane Weissberg for her support and the two anonymous readers of the manuscript for their exceptional insights. Others, with one exception, I will simply list since their contributions , whether it be in the form of comments, laughter, or patience, would only be diminished by any form of specification: Robert Block (for his musical phrasing), Kenneth Calhoon, Adrian DelCaro, Kathy Dougherty, Michael DuPlessis, Peter Fenves, Susannah Gottlieb, Thomas Hollweck, Mark Leiderman, Barbara von Molnár, Duane Perolio , Luciana Pignatelli, Karen Pinkus, Davide Stimili, Roy Vargason, and my parents. I would also like to thank the Graduate Schools of the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the University of Washington, Seattle, for helping support research for this project. ix This page intentionally left blank ...

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