Furst Lillian R (12 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the first edition from 1984 that has the name of a previous owner written very neatly on the front free endpaper. No other names, notes, highlighting, etc. Small tear in the jacket in the lower right hand corner where the jacket wraps around the board. Little wrinkle in the jacket in the upper left corner and a small dent in the board where the book must have been dropped at some time. Small tear is undetectable unless you search for it. Boards are a light brown with gilt on the spine.…

274pp. Papers by Debra L Stoudt, Nancy P Nenno, Esther Zago, Michael Solomon, William Kerwin, Gunilla T Kester, Holt T Parker, Paulette Meyer, Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Alison Basford, Lilian R Furst, & Elsa Nettels 2 pages folded and edge worn/soiled otherwise Fine in Fine dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover. Minor marks to front of cover but otherwise sharp, nearly as new copy with clean, unmarked pages throughout. Binding is solid.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. This book explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to Toni Morrison, in American, British, and European texts.The underlying, unifying theme is the role of eating choices as a means of self-empowerment. The texts discussed are different in genre (narrative, drama, epic and lyric poetry, and an autobiographical memoir), but they all reveal, in whatever setting, the individual's longing for autonomy of some kind. In many socially restrictive situations, eating patterns are the only choice available, especially for women. So disorderly eating becomes a tool for self-assertion as a rebellion against an unacceptable dominant ethos.Disorderly Eaters reveals that creative writers were, by sheer observation, aware of the dynamics of eating disorders long before the medical community came to recognize and institutionalize the syndromes in the nineteenth century. The literary portrayals analyzed here could act as illuminating exemplars for those involved in the treatment of eating disorders and those who suffer from them, too.…

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New. Klappentextrnrn Clearly Disorderly Eaters is a book whose time has come. Clinicians and popularizers have been busy it is time for literary scholars to have their day. How is eating functional in literature? Perhaps especially when it is dysfu.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Disorderly Eaters - Texts in Self-Empowerment | Texts in Self-Empowerment | Lillian R. Furst (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 1992 | Pennsylvania State University Press | EAN 9780271025599 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …

Paperback. Condition: New. This book explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to Toni Morrison, in American, British, and European texts.The underlying, unifying theme is the role of eating choices as a means of self-empowerment. The texts discussed are different in genre (narrative, drama, epic and lyric poetry, and an autobiographical memoir), but they all reveal, in whatever setting, the individual's longing for autonomy of some kind. In many socially restrictive situations, eating patterns are the only choice available, especially for women. So disorderly eating becomes a tool for self-assertion as a rebellion against an unacceptable dominant ethos.Disorderly Eaters reveals that creative writers were, by sheer observation, aware of the dynamics of eating disorders long before the medical community came to recognize and institutionalize the syndromes in the nineteenth century. The literary portrayals analyzed here could act as illuminating exemplars for those involved in the treatment of eating disorders and those who suffer from them, too.…