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A UTHOR STUDIES NEW NEW Stanley Elkin A Comprehensive Bibliography William M. Robins This extensive bibliography addresses every item by awardwinning author Stanley Elkin, including all of his novels, short stories, drama, non-print media adaptations, quotes, editorial ventures, and more.This volume also covers everything important written about him, such as interviews, criticism, awards, obituaries, manuscripts, and Internet references. William M. Robins has been a lawyer, librarian, and English teacher. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 978-0-8108-6956-1 • 2009 • 506 pp. • $110.00 • cloth William Faulkner An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism Since 1988 John E. Bassett Considered one of the great American authors of the 20th century,William Faulkner (1897-1962) produced such enduring novels as The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and As I Lay Dying, as well as many short stories. His works continue to be a source of interest, and the immense amount of criticism about the Nobelprize winner continues to grow.This book provides a comprehensive, annotated listing of commentary in English on William Faulkner. John E. Bassett is President of Clark University. He is the author of Thomas Wolfe: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism (Scarecrow, 1996). The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 978-0-8108-6741-3 • 2009 • 602 pp. • $100.00 • cloth NEW H.L. Mencken An Annotated Bibliography S.T. Joshi The most exhaustive and comprehensive bibliography of the writings of H. L. Mencken ever assembled, this volume presents detailed information on Mencken’s book publications from 1903 to the present. It also provides a comprehensive annotated listing of his magazine and newspaper work, including more than 1,500 anonymous editorials for the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Evening Sun, and other papers, which have never been listed in any previous bibliographies. S.T. Joshi is the author of Gore Vidal: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Scarecrow, 2007). The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 978-0-8108-6934-9 • 2009 • 398 pp. • $75.00 • cloth NEW IN PAPERBACK Murakami Haruki The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture Michael Robert Seats “A useful addition to the body of discourse on this important novelist.” —JOURNAL OF JAPANESE STUDIES This book offers a new approach to dealing with Murakami’s radical narrative project by demonstrating how his first and later trilogies utilize the structure of the simulacrum, a second-order representation, to develop a complex critique of contemporary Japanese culture. Michael R. Seats is senior lecturer in the Division of Language Studies at City University of Hong Kong. Studies of Modern Japan Lexington Books 978-0-7391-2725-4 • 2009 • 384 pp. • $39.95 • paper 978-0-7391-0785-0 • 2006 • 384 pp. • $70.00 • cloth ORDER ONLINE AT WWW.LEXINGTONBOOKS.COM • WWW.SCARECROWPRESS.COM

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