Drawing attention to the interplay between writing and vision, this book is stuffed with more than 200 images. It is a meditation on the threads that unite mothers and sons and the ways that certain writers and photographers take up those threads and create art that captures an irretrievable past.
Drawing attention to the interplay between writing and vision, this book is stuffed with more than 200 images. It is a meditation on the threads that unite mothers and sons and the ways that certain writers and photographers take up those threads and create art that captures an irretrievable past.
Carol Mavor is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden and Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs, both also published by Duke University Press.
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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
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
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