Mavor, Carol, 1957-

Reading boyishly : Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott / Carol Mavor. - x, 522 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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".

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Mothers and sons
Boys--Psychology
Boys in literature

HQ755.85 / .M35 2007

306.8743