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Reading Boyishly : Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mavor, Carol.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boys--Psychology.
- Boys in literature.
- Mothers and sons.
- Mothers and sons--Psychology.
- Boys.
- Local Subjects:
- Boys--Psychology.
- Boys in literature.
- Mothers and sons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (535 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An intricate text filled to the brim with connotations of desire, home, and childhood-nests, food, beds, birds, fairies, bits of string, ribbon, goodnight kisses, appetites sated and denied-Reading Boyishly is a story of mothers and sons, loss and longing, writing and photography. In this homage to four boyish men and one boy-J. M. Barrie, Roland Barthes, Marcel Proust, D. W. Winnicott, and the young photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue-Carol Mavor embraces what some have anxiously labeled an over-attachment to the mother. Here, the maternal is a cord (unsevered) to the night-light
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Anorectic Hedonism: A Reader's Guide to Reading Boyishly; Novel or a Philosophical Study? Am I a Novelist?; One. My Book Has a Disease; Two. Winnicott's ABCs and String Boy; Three. Splitting: The Unmaking of Childhood and Home; Four. Pulling Ribbons from Mouths: Roland Barthes's Umbilical Referent; Five. Nesting: The Boyish Labor of J. M. Barrie; Six. Childhood Swallows: Lartigue, Proust, and a Little Wilde; Seven. Mouth Wide Open for Proust: "A Sort of Puberty of Sorrow"; Eight. Soufflé/Souffle; Nine. Kissing Time
- Ten. Beautiful, Boring, and Blue: The Fullness of Proust's Search and Akerman's Jeanne DielmanConclusion. Boys: "To Think a Part of One's Body"; Illustrations; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786613904126
- 9781283591676
- 1283591677
- 9780822338864
- 0822338866
- OCLC:
- 810317318
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