Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 of this volume, “Escaping the Third Person Singular: Americana and the Semiotic Challenge,” appeared in the autumn 2005 edition of EnterText (Volume 5, number 1) under the title “Escaping the Third Person Singular: Art and Semiotics in Don DeLillo's Americana.”
I would like to thank Sheldon Brivic for guidance and support in bringing this book to fruition. I would also like to thank Ruth Helyer for providing the foreword for this volume.