Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all the contributors who accepted our invitation and collaborated patiently and secretly with us for the past three years up to the completion of this volume. We are indebted to the twenty-four anonymous reviewers who gave very constructive feedback to the authors of each chapter. We are thankful to Michel DeGraff for his contributions to aspects of the introduction, and to the volume as a whole. We express our gratitude to the editors of this book series for supporting our project, and for providing us with valuable suggestions. We are also particularly grateful to Karen Press for greatly contributing to harmonising the style of the manuscript as a whole. Finally, we would like to acknowledge and thank Simon Fraser University, and the Department of French for their financial contributions to the copy-editing-related costs.

This editorial project has been both exciting and enriching, and we hope that the readers will find as much pleasure as we had in editing this book.