Zara Dinnen - The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories

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E DITED BY Z ARA D INNEN AND R OBYN W ARHOL

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A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Zara Dinnen would like to thank first of all Robyn Warhol. Robyn, you have been a wonderful co-editor supportive and patient (and then supportive of my other projects which meant you needed to be patient), and fun, and I have learnt loads from you. I would also like to say thanks to Mark Currie for your encouragement early on in this project. Thank you to our brilliant contributors who write great work and have made the editing process a pleasure. Lots of people make a book possible. For me some of those people were colleagues at University of Birmingham and colleagues at Queen Mary University of London, where I now finish this book. To my friends and collaborators in both places, thank you. And finally thank you to my friends and family who make me happen.

Robyn Warhol returns Zara Dinnens kind compliments and gratitude, with interest. Your patience in the face of multiple medical and domestic adventures at my end is much appreciated, Zara, and your next-age approach to the theories of narrative has made this a truly original and exciting book. I want to thank Mark Currie, too, for the initial concept behind this collection and for suggesting me and (especially) Zara as co-editors of the project. My enthusiastic thanks go out to all the contributors for their diverse some might say eclectic expertise and their collective eloquence. And as always I thank my friends, my colleagues in OSUs Department of English, and my husband and sons for their support and forbearance.