The Pennsylvania State University Press imprint: 5 books

Soviet Salvage

Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism

by Russell Frank
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017

In the mid-nineties, Russell Frank left a peaceful life in rural California to raise three kids in a town saturated with fraternities, late-night undergrad fast food haunts, and rowdy football crowds. Among the Woo People recounts his two decades living—and surviving—in State College, Pennsylvania,...

Among the Woo People

A Survival Guide for Living in a College Town

by Russell Frank
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017

In the mid-nineties, Russell Frank left a peaceful life in rural California to raise three kids in a town saturated with fraternities, late-night undergrad fast food haunts, and rowdy football crowds. Among the Woo People recounts his two decades living—and surviving—in State College, Pennsylvania,...
by Bill Russell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

This revised and expanded edition of mushroom expert Bill Russell’s popular Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic provides both novice and experienced mushroom foragers with detailed, easy-to-use information about more than one hundred species of these fungi, including...

Robert the Devil

The First Modern English Translation of Robert le Diable, an Anonymous French Romance of the Thirteenth Century

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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018

Samuel N. Rosenberg, one of the premier translators of Old French, presents in this volume the first modern English-language version of the thirteenth-century French romance Robert le Diable, a tale of supernatural birth and spiritual redemption. Robert is born after his mother, a childless...

Translating the World

Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800

by Birgit Tautz
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany’s...
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