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  From the Polish Underground: Selections from “Krytyka,” 1978–1993

  by various authors $41.95
  Essays from Penn State University Press
  Translated from Polish

  The twenty articles in this volume were chosen by Michael Bernhard, Henryk Szlajfer, and Jan Kofman, the present editor-in-chief of Krytyka. Covering the underground and post-underground years, they introduce the reader to the full range of topics and political views presented by the journal. Taken together these articles provide an excellent overview of the last fifteen turbulent years of Polish history.
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  Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State, 1922–1939

  by Philip O'Leary $51.95 – $134.95
  Literary study from Penn State University Press

  “One of the great, essential statements about the Irish imagination in those strange moments when it first confronted the bleakness of freedom after 1921, Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State is a masterpiece of literary history and also a major contribution to the history of ideas in Ireland. Its value to scholars within the field of Irish-language studies is absolute.”—Declan Kiberd, University College Dublin
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  The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921: Ideology and Innovation

  by Philip O'Leary $41.95
  Literary study from Penn State University Press

  Presents the lively debates within the language movement known as the Gaelic revival in their full complexity, citing documents such as editorials, columns, speeches, letters, and literary works that were influential at the time but all too often have been published only in Irish or have been difficult to access.
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  Trafika Europe: Essential New European Literature, Vol. I

  by various authors $16.95
  Collection from Penn State University Press

  Choice offerings from the first year of the Trafika Europe quarterly journal edited by Andrew Singer, with sumptuous black-and-white photographs from former ASCAP Director of Photography Mark Chester – an excellent gift item!
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  Without God: Michel Houellebecq and Materialist Horror

  by Louis Betty $29.95 – $64.95
  Literary study from Penn State University Press

  Michel Houellebecq is France’s most famous and controversial living novelist. Focusing on Houellebecq’s complicated relationship with religion, Louis Betty shows that the novelist, who is at best agnostic, “is a deeply and unavoidably religious writer.”