ISBN:
9780822397779
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Mavor, Carol, - 1957- Reading boyishly
DDC:
306.874
Keywords:
Boys -- Psychology
;
Boys in literature
;
Mothers and sons
;
Mutter
;
Junge
;
Psychologie
;
Literatur
;
Electronic books
;
Junge
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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 of boyish re
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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