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Yasuhiro Takeuchi is Professor of American Literature at Hokkaido University, in Sapporo, Japan. He is author of four books published in Japanese, on J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain, and a Japanese poet Misuzu Kaneko, and of scholarly articles published in American Literary Realism, Studies in the Novel, and Literary Imagination, among others. He is a recipient of the Young Scholar Award of the English Literary Society of Japan for his article (in Japanese) "Deciphering Poe."

• 1. The Ur-Huckleberry Finn The Naked Body and Boots Here Is What Happened 2. Huckleberry Finn Redux Tom Sawyer, Detective Corpse and Murderer "Tom Sawyer’s Conspiracy" 3. "The Carnival of Crime" and Cadavers Splitting The Forbidden Fruit 4. The Half-Brother and the Half-Breed Tom the Apple Eater Tom the Scapegoat Tom the Detective 5. The Cave Joe the Scapegoat The Cross in the Maze 6. Two Patricidal Stories Pudd’nhead Wilson A Double Barrelled Detective Story 7. The Oedipal Huckleberry Finn The Two Chases The Slain Snake 8. The Seven Year War Maze in Europe The Carnage 9. A Truce Reinternalization of Conscience Huck’s Deception The Safe Return of the Repressed

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