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How China became capitalist
Onward
Emotion and meaning in music
Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800
Criticism and ideology
Reflections on exile and other essays
Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800
Stages of struggle
American public administration
Changing traditions
The discerning reader
The little book of music theory
Who killed Shakespeare?
Citation and modernity
Sexual Practice/Textual Theory
Narratives of nostalgia, gender, and nationalism
Creative Music Making
Bringing music to life
The Gospel and Pluralism Today
Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
Playing the whore
June Jordan's Poetry for the People
J. R. R. Tolkien, scholar and storyteller
Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800
God's mission and postmodern culture
Literary Theory and Structure
Twentieth-century music idioms
The masters of modern French criticism
The salvation of the nations
The popular and the canonical
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