Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496489Description: Assesses historical "hyperpolyglot" linguistic high achievers who demonstrated an extraordinary capacity for learning and speaking languages, and explains the sources of such abilities and what it reveals about the nature of memory and language.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496489http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496490Description: "From Occitan poetry to Francophone writing produced in the Caribbean and North Africa, from intellectual history to current films, and from medieval manuscripts to bandes dessine;es, this History covers French literature from its beginnings to the present day. With equal attention to all genres, historical periods and registers, this is the most comprehensive guide to literature written in French ever produced in English, and the first in decades to offer such an array of topics and perspectives. Contributors attend to issues of orality, history, peripheries, visual culture, alterity, sexuality, religion, politics, autobiography and testimony. The result is a collection that, despite the wide variety of topics and perspectives, presents a unified view of the richness of French-speaking cultures. This History gives support to the idea that French writing will continue to prosper in the twenty-first century as it adapts, adds to, and refocuses the rich legacy of its past"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496490http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496491Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496491http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496493Description: Contains 188 poet profiles.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496493http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496494Description: The seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496494http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496495Description: "This book applies theoretical models that reflect the fluid, mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which GenX artists and writers live, think, and work. Henseler touches upon critical insights in comparative media studies, cultural studies, and social theory, and uses sidebars to travel along multiple voices, facts, figures, and faces"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496495http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493235Description: Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including much fascinating new material made available since the collapse of the Soviet Union. She sheds light on Tolstoy's remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya, a subject long neglected; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved. Above all, she gives us an eloquent portrait of the brilliant, maddening, and contrary man who has, once again, been discovered by a new generation of readers.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=493235http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489837Description: During the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany, among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers, aristocrats, and artists, French was the universal language of politics and intellectual life. In When the World Spoke French, Marc Fumaroli presents a gallery of portraits of Europeans and Americans who conversed and corresponded in French, along with excerpts from their letters or other writings. --from publisher descriptionhttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=489837http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496492Description: Contains 61 profiles of poets from around the world.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496492