Carol Mavor

Reading Boyishly

Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Study of nostalgic representations of the maternal, the home, and childhood in the literature and photographs of early-20th-century artists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 150mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1338g
• ISBN-13: 9780822338864
• ISBN-10: 0822338866
• Artikelnr.: 22598824

Autorenporträt

Carol Mavor

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Anorectic Hedonism: A Reader’s Guide to Reading Boyishly;
Novel or a Philosophical Study? Am I a Novelist? 1
1. My Book Has a Disease 23
2. Winnicott’s ABCs and String Boy 57
3. Splitting: The Unmaking of Childhood and Home 77
4. Pulling Ribbons from Mouths: Roland Barthe’s Umbilical Referent 129
5. Nesting: The Boyish Labor of J.M. Barrie 163
6. Childhood Swallows: Lartigue, Proust, and a Little Wilde 253
7. Mouth Wide Open for Proust: “A Sort of Puberty of Sorrow” 315
8. Soufflé/Souffle 349
9. Kissing Time 367
10. Beautiful, Boring, and Blue: The Fullness of Proust’s Search and
Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman 397
Conclusion. Boys: “To Think a Part of One’s Body” 433
Illustrations 441
Index 519