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Article: Mad about the boys.(Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust and D.W. Winnicott)(Book review)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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THIS BOOK is a curiosity, that's for sure. Sprightly, witty, distinctly unlabored, at times willfully unacademic, Reading Boyishly plots its course as: "Ancient boys, aged children, adolescent gentlemen: I dish them up as boyish cuisine... My book is puerile, a depreciative term meaning merely boyish."
Carol Mavor, a Californian and a professor of art history now based in England, has gathered five figures, loosely collected around the idea of the boy or the boyish. The French structuralist critic Roland Barthes was "boyishly" attached to his mother all his life--and sometimes secured the services of other boys. J. M. Barrie notoriously immortalized his devotion ...