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

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

Carol Mavor

Duke University Press, 2007

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 reading.To "read boyishly" is to covet the mother's body as a home both lost and never lost, to desire her as only a son can, as only a body that longs for, but will never become Mother, can. Nostalgia (from the Greek nostos = return to native land, and algos = suffering or grief) is at the heart of the labor of boyish reading, which suffers in its love affair with the mother. The writers and the photographer that Mavor lovingly considers are boyish readers par excellence: Barrie, creator of Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up; Barthes, the "professor of desire" who lived with or near his mother until her death; Proust, the modernist master of nostalgia; Winnicott, therapist to "good enough" mothers; and Lartigue, the child photographer whose images invoke ghostlike memories of a past that is at once comforting and painful. Drawing attention to the interplay between writing and vision, Reading Boyishly is stuffed full with more than 200 images. At once delicate and powerful, the book is a meditation on the threads that unite mothers and sons and on the writers and artists who create from those threads art that captures an irretrievable past.

目次

  • 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. Souffle/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

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