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Product Description: This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the picaresque novel over four centuries through the literature of Spain, France, England, Germany, Russia, and the United States. Blackburn uses for the first time the resources of myth criticism to demonstrate how the picaresque masterpieces of the Spanish Golden Age founded a narrative structure that was continued by Defoe, Smollett, Melville, Twain, and Mann...read more

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9781469619866 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, June 30, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the picaresque novel over four centuries through the literature of Spain, France, England, Germany, Russia, and the United States.
9780415051446, titled "Rhetoric" | Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1, 1971, cover price $9.95 | also contains Rhetoric | About this edition: First published in 1971, this book provides a historical account of the fortunes of Rhetoric.

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Product Description: In Meeting the Professor, Alexander Blackburn tells the story of growing up as the son of William Blackburn, the legendary professor of English at Duke University. Before his death in 1972, William Blackburn formed strong mentor-protégé relationships with such students as William Styron, Reynolds Price, Fred Chappell, and Guy Davenport, to name only a few...read more
By Alexander Blackburn and Fred Chappell (foreword by)

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9780895872944 | John F Blair Pub, October 30, 2004, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In Meeting the Professor, Alexander Blackburn tells the story of growing up as the son of William Blackburn, the legendary professor of English at Duke University.

Product Description: Book by Blackburn, Alexander (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9780887393150 | Creative Arts Book Co, December 1, 2001, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Book by Blackburn, Alexander

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Product Description: The lives of two Hungarian half-brothers are skewed by parental folly. One becomes a South American strongman, the other a mystic.

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9781880909232 | Baskerville Pub, January 1, 1995, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The lives of two Hungarian half-brothers are skewed by parental folly.

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Product Description: Novelist and critic Alexander Blackburn credits Waters’s novels such as The Man Who Killed the Deer, Pike’s Peak, People of the Valley, and The Woman at Otowi Crossing with creating a worldview that transcends modern materialism and rationalism...read more

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9780804009478 | Swallow Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Novelist and critic Alexander Blackburn credits Waters’s novels such as The Man Who Killed the Deer, Pike’s Peak, People of the Valley, and The Woman at Otowi Crossing with creating a worldview that transcends modern materialism and rationalism.

Book by Blackburn, Alexander

Hardcover:

9780804008877 | Swallow Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $24.95

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9780804008884 | Swallow Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Blackburn, Alexander

By Alexander Blackburn (editor) and Craig Lesley (editor)

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9780317041088 | Univ Colorado, October 1, 1984, cover price $8.95

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