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

by Carol Mavor

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822339625
• ISBN13: 9780822339625
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.9" x 8.0"