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Article: Reverie and reverence.(Reading Boyishly Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust and D.W. Winnicott)(Book review)
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READING BOYISHLY: ROLAND BARTHES, J.M. BARRIE, JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE, MARCEL PROUST, AND D.W. WINNICOTT
BY CAROL MAVOR
DURHAM, NC: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008
536 PP./$27.95 (SB)
Both critical novel and novelesque criticism, Carol Mavor creates a self-described monster of fiction, memoir, and criticism in Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W. Winnicott. Nostalgia is intertwined with scholarship in this text as Mavor's work is a (re)search for this emotion in literature, art, and especially photography. With hedonistic pleasure, she offers exegetical indulgences and connections ...