Narrative theory: core concepts and critical debates

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liams. They also thank the two external reviewers, Susan Lanser and Gerald Prince, for their productive comments on an earlier draft of this study. In addition, they are grateful to the OSU faculty and graduate students who offered feedback during a panel discussion that was sponsored by OSU's Project Narrative in November 2009; the discussion afforded the co-authors an opportunity to present preliminary versions of their contributions to chapter 4. We are also deeply indebted to each other. As
more » ... Robyn put it first, each one of us is grateful for "the brilliance, forbearance, and generosity of spirit" exhibited by the others, and it has thus been a privilege for all of us to work together on this project. Jim Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz thank the OSU Department of english and its chair, Richard Dutton, and Hamilton College and its Dean of Faculty, Patrick Reynolds, and its Associate Dean, Margaret Gentry, for support that helped make this collaboration possible. They also thank Corinne Bancroft, Katie Berlent, and Michael Harwick for helpful advice; and Ivy Akumu, Lindsay Martin, and Brian McAllister for proofreading and other assistance. Robyn Warhol would like to thank the participants in the 2011 Curiosities: The 19th Annual British Women Writers Conference held in Columbus for their responses to her section on Character. She is grateful to the graduate students and core faculty of Project Narrative for making her feel so much a C k N o w l e d g m e N T s xiv a C k n o W l e d g m e n T S at home at OSU and for teaching her so much more than she already knew about narratology. David Herman thanks the American Council of Learned Societies, as well as OSU's College of Arts and Sciences and Department of english, for supporting his work on this project. He is also grateful to the following people, either for their direct assistance with his work on this study or, more generally, for the example they have set as scholars and mentors in the larger field:
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