| Description |
x, 522 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Anorectic hedonism : a reader's guide to Reading boyishly; novel or a philosophical study? Am I a novelist? -- My book has a disease -- Winicott's ABCs and String boy -- Splitting : the unmaking of childhood and home -- Pulling ribbons from mouths : Roland Barthes's umbilical referent -- Nesting : the boyish labor of J.M. Barrie -- Childhood swallows : Lartigue, Proust, and a little Wilde -- Mouth wide open for Proust : "a sort of puberty of sorrow" -- Soufflé/souffle -- Kissing time -- Beautiful, boring, and blue : the fullness of Proust's Search and Akerman's Jeanne Dielman -- Boys : "To think a part of one's body." |
| 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 of boyish reading." |
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"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. |
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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." |
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"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."--Jacket. |
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Mothers and sons.
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Boys -- Psychology.
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Boys in literature.
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Boys in literature. (OCoLC)fst00837395
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Boys -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst00837382
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Mothers and sons. (OCoLC)fst01027007
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| ISBN |
9780822339625 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0822339625 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780822338864 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0822338866 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780822339625 |
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