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	Genders OnLine Journal - What is Prior? Working-Class Masculinity in Pat Barker's Trilogy
		Barker's trilogy also underlines that the war is the touchstone for revenge tragedy: its recall constantly risks regenerating the past as a revenge on the present.
		The waft of Freudianism that drifts between Barker and her characters in the trilogy is resisted in the manifest silences of the narrative.
		Perturbed that Barker seems to "out" Rivers (she does not) and that Prior has the capacity to read Freud and anthropology (the former a monopoly, apparently, of Bloomsbury esthetes), Shephard exhorts his readers to stick with "solid historical originals," the "real world of shell-shock" to be found in the case histories of the time.
	www.genders.org /g35/g35_hitchcock.html (7201 words)

	Pat Barker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an English writer and historian.
		She published her first novel, Union Street, in the 1980s and has since won critical acclaim for her First World War series, the Regeneration trilogy, which documents the wartime experiences of the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the psychiatrist W.
		Barker is married and lives in Durham, England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pat_Barker (131 words)

	Pat Barker
		Novelist Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in Yorkshire, England, on 8 May 1943.
		Pat Barker's work never makes comfortable reading, for she chooses to explore, with an unflinching eye, controversial, often taboo subjects such as prostitution, homosexuality, child rape, mental illness, pacifism, war, and murder by minors.
		In her earlier works, Barker gives quite detailed descriptions of dilapidated living conditions, of the viaduct in which the prostitutes work, the park where the child meets her molester.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors?p=auth15 (1286 words)

	SkyMinds.Net (English Literature: Regeneration by Pat Barker)
		Pat Barker is a university-trained historian and this is confirmed by the presence of very reliable sources in the "Author's Notes", at the end of the novel.
		Pat Barker is trying to put the reader in a situation where he expects to find vomit but no such thing as an eye.
		Pat Barker wants to tell the truth at all cost but the text cannot be reduced to realism : a historical document aims at objectivity and this passage is purely subjective.
	www.skyminds.net /lit_gb/ww1_regeneration (1178 words)

	Sneak Peeks page 2
		Barker, the author of several gritty novels about the modern British working class, including "Union Street" and "The Century's Daughter," is an audacious writer.
		Barker's view of life on the front manages to be startling and convincing; she catches the awful "immobility, passivity and helplessness" of trench warfare, the "morose disgust" that came from "living in trenches that had bits of human bone sticking out of the walls," a world in which the stench of corruption is inescapable.
		Barker has recreated the singular experiences of individuals who reveal, in their particular stories of grief and horror, the war's true cost and tragedy.
	www.salon.com /02dec1995/sneakpeeks/sneakpeeks2.html (675 words)

	Pat Barker : Entertaining Comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The only other Pat Barker novels I've read were those of the Regeneration trilogy, and it's easy to recognize her style in "Border Crossing", once again the reader is taken into the intimate relationship between a psychologist and his patient.
		Barker is one of the great storytellers of our age, and she does her job beautifully here, winding the spring of anxiety tighter and...
		Pat Barker has written a fabulous book in "Double Vision", a look into the present and future of our life through the form of violence and trauma, and how we respond.
	queerpopculture.com /entertainment/authorsearch_Pat%20Barker/mode_books (732 words)

	Pat Barker's Regeneration -- Critical Contexts -- Jews in England
		On page 35 of Pat Barker's historical novel Regeneration, Siegfried Sassoon reveals the nature of his relationship with his father, who left home when he was five, and gives an account of his Jewish history.
		References to Jews in Barker's novel begin on page 35 in a conversation between Dr. Rivers and Siegfried Sassoon where the reader learns that Sassoon not only lost his father at a very early age, but also missed a large part of his heritage, his past, which kept him from understanding himself.
		As Karin Westman points out in Pat Barker's Regeneration, Prior and Rivers share similar characteristics (32-35) due mostly to the fact that their relationships with their fathers were very much alike.
	www.ksu.edu /english/westmank/regeneration/jews.crusch.html (1394 words)

	Regeneration - Pat Barker - Review - Conflict in Regeneration
		‘Regeneration’ by Pat Barker is set over four months in a psychiatric hospital at Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, in 1917, which attracted me to the novel as it is close to the village where I live and I find the subject matter of the first world war and its psychology interesting.
		Barker seamlessly interweaves fact and fiction while focusing on the conflict between Dr William Rivers’ efforts to ‘cure’ those traumatised by the war, and his duty to prepare them for returning to the front.
		Barker’s most developed fictional character is grafted beautifully into the events of ‘Regeneration’, with her descriptive style breathing life into him with his personality being detailed down to the “faintest trace of sibilance” in his “Northern accent...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/regeneration-pat-barker/295309 (1412 words)

	Pat Barker's Regeneration -- Critical Contexts -- Imagination
		Pat Barker draws on many resources to support this claim, including the Book of Genesis, from which she cites the quotation "The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth," spoken by the character David Burns on page 183 of this novel.
		Burns believes that the imagination is evil because someone had to have imagined those terrible deaths by suffocation, both that of Christ and the deaths of the mustard gas victims in the war.
		The creative application of imagination is especially employed by Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, who use poetry as a "therapeutic" (Barker 26) and perhaps as a creative release in order to counteract the destructiveness of war.
	www.ksu.edu /english/westmank/regeneration/imagination.schuster.html (1630 words)

	WWGPro.DE Buchtipps: Union Street & Blow Your House Down (Pat Barker) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pat Barker's _Union Street_ and _Blow Your House Down_ are hard-hitting, gritty novels about the lives of working-class women in northeast England (_Union Street_) and prostitutes living in fear of a serial prostitute murderer (_Blow Your House Down_).
		Barker skillfully makes the lives of these women come alive for the reader: the tedium of their jobs, all the sensory attributes of their homes, the nature of their relationships with their husbands, boyfriends, children, and women friends.
		Pat Barker is one of the greatest contemporary British writers.
	www.wwgpro.de /books-isbn-0312240899.html (508 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Pat Barker: MAIN
		Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943, and was brought up mainly by her...
		Pat Barker lives in Durham with her husband.
		Pat Barker at www.contemporarywriters.com - Novelist Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in Yorkshire, England, on 8 May 1943.
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	ttgapers.com store - The Eye in the Door - Pat Barker - Product Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Eye in the Door is the second installation of Pat Barker's acclaimed and haunting historical fiction trilogy about British soldiers traumatized by World War I trench warfare and the methods used by psychiatrist William Rivers to treat them.
		The writing is sparse yet multilayered; Barker uses the lives of a few to capture an entire society during a tumultuous period.
		Pat Barker's magnificent trilogy is not only a profound contribution to our literature on the First World War - it is also one of the most distinguished works of contemporary fiction in any genre.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-0452272726.html (1581 words)

	Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker
		The volume probes Barker's keenly historicized and yet topical preoccupations: the social and psychological ramifications of planned violence in war and random violence in British villages and cities, and the comforts and tensions in relationships, whether between men in war, women in postindustrial cities, or men and women in sex and marriage.
		Interracial Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction and Pat Barker and coauthor of Contemporary British and Irish Fiction.
		Born and raised in the same region of England as Pat Barker, Ronald Paul is an associate professor of English at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
	www.sc.edu /uscpress/2004/3570.html (656 words)

	Regeneration by Pat Barker, 0745127584, Lowest Book Price Finder
		Instead, what novelist Pat Barker sets out to attain is to trace the mental paralysis the war leaves in man's mind as well as exploring the courageous, though mostly inept, ways for all those involved, to cope.
		Barker follows the treatment undergone by war poet Siegfried Sassoon (aka Mad Jack) upon his arrival at Craiglockhart after throwing his brave conduct medal into the river Mersey and publishing his notorious anti-war statement in the Times.
		In Regeneration, admittedly, the war merely serves as an undercurrent; but Barker succeeds admirably in turning it into a dramatic device to explore the complex issues she sets forth to clarify.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/0745127584 (785 words)

	Regeneration :: Regeneration books, reviews and more
		Pat Barker Peter Firth "The Eye in the Door Regeneration Trilogy Vol 2 UNABRIDGED".
		Pat Barker Peter Firth "Regeneration Regeneration Trilogy Vol 1".
		Pat Barker Peter Firth "The Ghost Road Regeneration Trilogy Vol 3"
	www.sciencefictionclassics.com /335078pat_barker.html (68 words)

	Pat Barker -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English writer and historian.
		The final book in the trilogy, Ghost Road, won the (Click link for more info and facts about Booker Prize) Booker Prize upon its publication.
		Barker is married and lives in (A city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University) Durham, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/pat_barker.htm (121 words)

	ORCON: Double Vision - Pat Barker
		Those familiar with Pat Barker's previous novels - at least from the much-lauded World War I Regeneration trilogy onwards - will find themselves on familiar ground with her latest, Double Vision.
		It would be easy to think of Stephen as a mouthpiece for Barker's own thoughts, but the character has other facets as well, and the good supporting cast of family and friends give a realistic context.
		Finishing as it does, it leaves a sense that the story is just a means for Barker to prod the reader's own ideas and understanding.
	www.gig.co.nz /home/entertainment/books/28641 (468 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Tracing trauma and its aftermath
		Pat Barker might be described as contemporary fiction's best anthropologist in the trenches of warfare and trauma.
		The author has visited the war-crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague, and the novel poses questions about the need to report atrocity, the price of not recording, and the role of the novelist.
		Barker spoke from her home in Durham, England.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/03/07/tracing_trauma_and_its_aftermath (1035 words)

	Thesis on Pat Barker.
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		Bringing real life poets and their experiences together with a fictional plot surrounding the Great War, Barker was able to produce a novel from an intriguing blend of fact and fiction, one that conveys several aspects of history and pieces them together with first hand knowledge from her family.
		With her childhood tattooed in her heart, the factual presence of both Siegfried Sassoon and Doctor William H.R. Rivers, and the history that they had combined, it is of no surprise that Pat Barker had all of the inspiration she needed to complete the psychologically draining novel, Regeneration.
	www.emailessay.com /paper/Pat_Barker-142824.html (182 words)

	Freud and War Neuroses: Pat Barker "Regeneration"
		Pat Barker's brilliant novel "Regeneration' tells the stories of Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and others who were treated for 'shell shock' during the first world war by the psychiatrist and anthropologist William Rivers at Craiglockhart hospital in Scotland.
		Rivers was influenced by Freud and in turn introduced Freud's work to the British medical establishment.
		What overwhelming trauma might Pat Barker be trying to come to terms with through writing her novel 'Regeneration'?
	www.freud.org.uk /warneuroses.html (2249 words)

	The Ghost Road - Pat Barker - Penguin Group (USA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Winner of Great Britain's highest literary award, the Booker Prize, The Ghost Road is the culminating masterpiece of Pat Barker's towering World War I fiction trilogy.
		The time of the novel is the closing months of the most senselessly savage of modern conflicts.
		Combining poetic intensity with gritty realism, blending biting humor with tragic drama, moving toward a denouement as inevitable as it is devastating, The Ghost Road both encapsulates history and transcends it.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0452276721,00.html (210 words)

	Audiobook Another World (Unabridged) by Pat Barker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Booker Prize-winning author Pat Barker is one of Britain's most powerful contemporary novelists.
		As the sins of that family seep into their lives, Nick must tend to his dying grandfather, who is dealing with his own past failures.
		Barker skillfully weaves these dark threads together until unspeakable violence seems ready to explode from every scene.
	www.literaturepost.com /det/audiobook/Another-World-Unabridged.html (177 words)

	Web Resources for Contemporary British Literature
		A bibliography of Pat Barker's work and reviews of her work, as of 1999.
		Barker discusses a three-part "reality t.v." history show called "The Trench" (March 2002), which invited contemporary people to live in the conditions of trench warfare.
		Barker discusses the use of medical hospitals as settings for books and films, including her use of this setting in Regeneration (May 2002).
	www.ksu.edu /english/westmank/literary/contempbrit_resources.html (4964 words)

	Das Gegenbild von Pat Barker
		In Pat Barkers Roman "Das Gegenbild" wirft der Erste Weltkrieg Schatten bis in die Familienidylle der 90er-Jahre
		Pat Barker hat recherchiert und analysiert, sich eingefühlt und sich dramatische Szenen ausgedacht, sie hat einen kunstvollen Bauplan entworfen, alles, um literarisch die Menschen, die an die Front geschickt wurden, zu verstehen.
		In ihrem Roman Das Gegenbild, 1998, drei Jahre nach Abschluss der Trilogie erschienen, kommt Barker in der Gegenwart der 90er Jahre an.
	www.lyrikwelt.de /rezensionen/dasgegenbild-r.htm (1000 words)

	Pat Barker
		Pat Barker was born in Thornaby-on-Tees in 1943, and was brought up mainly by her grandparents.
		Her grandfather had fought in the First World War and became more and more haunted by it towards the end of his life, providing a strong inspiration for Pat when she came to write about that period.
		The Eye of The Door, the second book in the trilogy appeared in 1993 and the final book, The Ghost Road, was published to critical acclaim in 1995 and won the Booker Prize.
	www.mtmercy.edu /classes/barkerbio.htm (256 words)

	Double Vision by Pat Barker, review by Pat Boran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In her best-known work to date, the Regeneration trilogy, which included the Booker winning third instalment The Ghost Road, Pat Barker proved herself equal to the narrative complexities of a war story often told but seldom if ever as movingly realised.
		In Double Vision, her eleventh work of fiction, war is again part of her subject matter, but this time her focus is on the homecoming of a somewhat shaken foreign correspondent.
		And yet, against all these odds, Double Vision has a credible and healing resolution, suggesting that sometimes, the best and only cure for the troubles of the past is to release oneself into the uncertainty of the present moment.
	homepage.eircom.net /~patboran/papers/barker.html (338 words)

	Buy.com - Border Crossing : Pat Barker : ISBN 0754007626
		The author of many novels, Pat Barker was born into the English working class.
		In the course of the relationship between these two men, Barker explores the mind of a psychopath, and the way he has been formed by the moral tenor of our times.
		Partly that's due to Barker's suspenseful plot--we're never sure whether Danny is a danger to Tom--but it's also simply exhilarating to read Barker's vigorous, precise prose.
	www.buy.com /prod/Border_Crossing/q/loc/106/30949914.html (650 words)

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