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vii Acknowledgements This book is the result of a collective effort; I wish to extend heartfelt thanks to all contributors for their unfailing support, good will, and responsiveness to my comments and suggestions. The authors of this volume have brought to it valuable knowledge and genuine passion for the work of Gustav Shpet, thus making the whole enterprise both feasible and enjoyable. It is also a great pleasure to thank a number of colleagues who have been working over the years on Gustav Shpet, or in related fields, and have assisted my editorial tasks through abundant gestures of kindness: John Bowlt, Jenny Brine, Katya Chown, Igor Chubarov,Aleksandr Dmitriev, Evgeny Dobrenko, Wolfgang Eismann, Maria Candida Ghidini, Anna Han, Catriona Kelly, Modest Kolerov, Georgii Levinton, John Malmstad, Tatiana Martsinkovskaia, Olga Mazaeva, Anita Michalak, Zoran Milutinović, Nikolai Nikolaev, Vladimir Novikov, Giulietta Ottaviano, Irina Paperno, Elena Pasternak, Nikolaj Plotnikov, Boris Poizner, Irina Prokhorova, Catia Renna, Andrei Rogatchevski, Tatiana Shchedrina, Marina Shtorkh, Gerry Smith, Grigorii Tulchinskii, Michela Venditti, Boris Wolfson, Sergei Zenkin, and Viktor Zhivov. I should also like to thank the anonymous reviewers of the manuscript for their comments and suggestions. Adelina Angusheva, spouse and fellow scholar, has been of enormous help all along in more ways than I would be able to acknowledge here. I am grateful for her inspiration and trust. Thanks are due to Springer Verlag, AAASS, and Cornell University Press for their permission to republish in this volume, in updated versions, the texts of Steven Cassedy, Peter Steiner, and Thomas Seifrid. Stephen Hutchings and Jonathan Starbrook at The University of Manchester kindly facilitated a grant towards the copyright fees. My own research, including the two bibliographies in the volume, was funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Finally, I would like to thank Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, editor of the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, for welcoming this volume in the series. His advice and constructive patience are greatly appreciated, as is the kind editorial assistance of Rebecca Corbin and Dianna Gilroy. G.T. 7 October 2009 ...

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