Background
Furst, Lilian Renee was born on June 30, 1931 in Vienna. Came to the United States, 1971, naturalized, 1976. Daughter of Desiderius and Sarah Freda (Neufeld) Furst.
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Romanticism in Perspective
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A comparative study of aspects of the Romantic movements in England, France and Germany.
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Before Freud: Hysteria and Hypnosis in Later Nineteenth-Century Psychiatric Cases
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"Before Freud" is an anthology of psychiatric case histories published between 1869 and 1894 by five leading medical practitioners: George Beard, Richard Krafft-Ebing, Arthur Schnitzler, Jean-Martin Charcot, and Pierre Janet. Most of the cases here are translated from German or French for the first time. The purpose of this collection is to make accessible to English speakers important primary documents crucial not only for the history of psychology but also for an understanding of the literature of the period.
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Fictions of Romantic Irony (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)
( What is meant by "romantic irony"? What is specificall...)
What is meant by "romantic irony"? What is specifically romantic about this kind of irony? How does it relate to--and differ from--ordinary, traditional irony? Is it a variant of traditional irony, or an independent phenomenon? Are its lines of demarcation primarily historical or modal? How does it become manifest in a text? What is its impact on the art of narration? These are the questions that Fictions of Romantic Irony addresses. It makes a new approach to romantic irony by envisaging it in a broad European context in relation both to earlier concepts of irony and to traditional uses of irony in narration. Fictions of Romantic Irony shows how irony was transformed in the hands of Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel and Kierkegaard. Through an analysis of six major European narratives of the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century it illustrates the reciprocal interplay of theory and practice, and the complex and central role that irony assumes as a shaping aesthetic factor. Using a wide perspective and an original synchronic disposition of texts within its historical framework, it identifies the distinctive philosophical and literary features of romantic irony. Fictions of Romantic Irony presents an important theory of romantic irony, distinguishing it from traditional irony in the handling of fictional illusion and in the dynamics of the tripartite relationship between narrator, narrative and reader. It dispels many common, limiting fictions about romantic irony, and offers a robust understanding of its workings in narrative and its significance for modern fiction.
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Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power by Furst, Lilian R. (1998) Hardcover
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Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power
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In Between Doctors and Patients, Lillian R. Furst brings together the seemingly incompatible worlds of medicine and literature to illustrate the changing balance of power between doctors and patients since the evolution of modern medicine. Linking popular novels with recent works of medical history, she offers an astute portrait of medicine's emergence from a semi-quack profession to one of the most revered in contemporary society. Furst shows how vividly such novels as Eliot's Middlemarch, Lewis's Arrowsmith, and the stories of Conan Doyle reveal the changing role of doctors from once-modest supplicants to powerul healers.
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Idioms of Distress: Psychosomatic Disorders in Medical and Imaginative Literature
(Traces portrayals of psychocomatic disorders in medical a...)
Traces portrayals of psychocomatic disorders in medical and imaginative literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill: 1st (First) Edition
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Through the Lens of the Reader: Explorations of European Narrative (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)
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Fictions of Romantic Irony in European Narrative, 1760-1857
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(Idioms of Distress: Psychosomatic Disorders in Medical and Imaginative Literature) Author: Lilian R. Furst published on (November, 2002)
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Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment
(This book explores the various manifestations of eating d...)
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.
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(Disorderly Eaters) Author: Lilian R Furst published on (February, 2005)
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- Women Healers & Physicians Climbing A
- Through the Lens of the Reader: Explorations of European Narrative (SUNY Series, the Margins of Literature) by Lilian R. Furst (1991-12-13)
- Disorderly Eaters by L. Furst (1992-09-18)
- The Contours of European Romanticism (Book by Furst, Lilian R.)
- Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment by Lillian R. Furst (2004-05-04)
- Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment by Peter W. Graham (1992-09-01)
- Home Is Somewhere Else: Autobiography in Two Voices (S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature) (Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938...)
- Romanticism in Perspective: A Comparative Study of Aspects of the Romantic Movements in England, France and Germany (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
Lilian Renee Furst
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Lilian Renee Furst, American Language professional, educator. American Council Learned Socs. fellow, 1974-1975, Guggenheim fellow, 1982-1983, Marta Sutton Weeks fellow Stanford Humanities Center, 1982-1983, National Humanities Center fellow, 1988-1989, National Endowment for Humanities fellow, 1994-1995. Member Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, International Comparative Literature Association.
Education
Bachelor with honors, Manchester University, England, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Girton College, Cambridge, England, 1957. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Nebraska, Lincoln, 2006.
Career
Assistant professor Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland, 1955-1959, associate professor, 1959-1966. Associate professor, head department Manchester University, 1966-1971. Visiting professor Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1971-1972.
Professor, director graduate program University Oregon, Eugene, 1972-1974. Professor comparative literature University Texas, Dallas, 1975-1986. Marcel Bataillon professor comparative literature University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1986—2005.
Retired, 2005
Mather visiting professor Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1978-1979. Visiting professor Stanford University, 1981-1982, Harvard University, 1983-1984. Kenan distinguished professor humanities College William and Mary, 1985-1986.
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Fictions of Romantic Irony (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)
( What is meant by "romantic irony"? What is specificall...)
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Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment
(This book explores the various manifestations of eating d...)
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Before Freud: Hysteria and Hypnosis in Later Nineteenth-Century Psychiatric Cases
("Before Freud" is an anthology of psychiatric case histor...)
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Home Is Somewhere Else: Autobiography in Two Voices (S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature)
(Following the Nazi annexation of Austria in March of 1938...)
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Idioms of Distress: Psychosomatic Disorders in Medical and Imaginative Literature
(Traces portrayals of psychocomatic disorders in medical a...)
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Romanticism in Perspective
(A comparative study of aspects of the Romantic movements ...)
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Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power
( In Between Doctors and Patients, Lillian R. Furst bring...)
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The Contours of European Romanticism
(Book by Furst, Lilian R.)
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Romanticism in Perspective: A Comparative Study of Aspects of the Romantic Movements in England, France and Germany
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Women Healers & Physicians Climbing A
- Through the Lens of the Reader: Explorations of European Narrative (SUNY Series, the Margins of Literature) by Lilian R. Furst (1991-12-13)
- Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power by Furst, Lilian R. (1998) Hardcover
- Disorderly Eaters by L. Furst (1992-09-18)
- Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill: 1st (First) Edition
- Through the Lens of the Reader: Explorations of European Narrative (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)
- Fictions of Romantic Irony in European Narrative, 1760-1857
- (Idioms of Distress: Psychosomatic Disorders in Medical and Imaginative Literature) Author: Lilian R. Furst published on (November, 2002)
- Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment by Lillian R. Furst (2004-05-04)
- Disorderly Eaters: Texts in Self-Empowerment by Peter W. Graham (1992-09-01)
- (Disorderly Eaters) Author: Lilian R Furst published on (February, 2005)
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Fictions of Romantic Irony (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)
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Member Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, International Comparative Literature Association.
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American Council Learned Societies fellow, 1974-1975, Guggenheim fellow, 1982-1983, Marta Sutton Weeks fellow Stanford Humanities Center, 1982-1983, National Humanities Center fellow, 1988-1989, National Endowment of the Humanities fellow, 1994-1995.American Council Learned Societies fellow, 1974-1975, Guggenheim fellow, 1982-1983, Marta Sutton Weeks fellow Stanford Humanities Center, 1982-1983, National Humanities Center fellow, 1988-1989, National Endowment of the Humanities fellow, 1994-1995.