Critical Perspectives On Pat Barker

Author : Sharon Monteith
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570035709

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Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker by Sharon Monteith Pdf

These essays cover the work and career of Pat Barker, providing insight into her novels, from Union Street (1982) through the Regeneration trilogy (1991-95) to Double Vision (2003). The essays are organized into: "Writing Working-Class Women," "Dialogueunder Pressure," "Men at War," "The Talking Cure," and "Regenerating the Wasteland."

Author : Pat Barker
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141906430

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Regeneration by Pat Barker Pdf

A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection The modern classic of contemporary war fiction - a Man Booker Prize-nominated examination of World War I and its deep legacy of human traumas. 'A brilliant novel. Intense and subtle' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients' minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. Pat Barker's Regeneration is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. This is the first novel in Pat Barker's Man Booker Prize-winning Regeneration Trilogy: I: Regeneration II: The Eye in the Door III: The Ghost Road 'A vivid evocation of the agony of the First World War and a multi-layered exploration of all wars. A fine anthem for doomed youth' Time Out 'A novel of tremendous power' Margaret Forster 'Unforgettable' Sunday Telegraph 'One of the strongest and most interesting novelists of her generation' Guardian

Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350308886

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The Fiction of Pat Barker by Merritt Moseley Pdf

Pat Barker is one of the most important authors of her time. Her fiction has won many awards – including the Booker Prize for The Ghost Road, the last novel in her celebrated Regeneration trilogy – and has attracted much critical attention. This stimulating Guide examines the key critical responses to the full range of Barker's fiction, from newspaper reviews and journal articles to revealing interviews and book-length scholarship. Merritt Moseley also explores the central themes which run through Barker's novels and the criticism, such as the issues of gender, class, social realism, violence and trauma. Tracing the development of Barker's fiction through the surrounding critical works, this is an indispensable volume for anyone with an interest in one of Britain's most popular and widely-studied contemporary writers.

Author : Pat Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527551510

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Re-reading Pat Barker by Pat Wheeler Pdf

Re-Reading Pat Barker brings together a number of scholars from across the world who explore in detail the work of one of Britain’s most notable contemporary novelists. The essays both acknowledge and engage with previous scholarship, re-establishing Barker’s eminence as a writer and adding to existing critical perspectives. In the collection, established Barker scholars return to her work, re-reading her novels to offer fresh and innovative readings, and other critics who have not previously published on Barker offer new insights into her body of work. The contributors examine a number of thematic concerns including matrilineal heritage, masculinity, the body, ways of seeing, institutional and personal violence, psychoanalysis and gender and class. The essays in the collection explore the broader social and historical aspects of Barker’s novels and the aesthetics and ethical issues in her work, drawing our attention to the ways that she engages with the world, gesturing towards new ways of seeing and to the possibilities of personal and political regeneration. The collection shows there is still much to say about the novels and the ways in which we choose to read them.

Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2648 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780195169218

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature by David Scott Kastan Pdf

A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.

Author : Pat Barker
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307472441

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Life Class by Pat Barker Pdf

In the spring of 1914, a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but watches from afar when a well-known painter catches her eye. After World War I begins, Paul tends to the dying soldiers from the front line as a Belgian Red Cross volunteer, but the longer he remains, the greater the distance between him and home becomes. By the time he returns, Paul must confront not only the overwhelming, perhaps impossible challenge of how to express all that he has seen and experienced, but also the fact that life, and love, will never be the same for him again.

Author : John Brannigan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719065771

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Pat Barker by John Brannigan Pdf

This book offers readings of Barker's innovations in narrative form, her revisionist perspectives on history, class and gender, and her preoccupation with themes of trauma, haunting and terror. It also analyzes the reasons for her success and significance as a novelist. The chapters draw on contemporary theories of critical realism, gender and social identities, memory and narrative, in order to outline the debates with which Barker's work has consistently engaged.

Author : Karen Patrick Knutsen
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783830972952

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Reciprocal Haunting: Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy by Karen Patrick Knutsen Pdf

Author : David F. Waterman
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781604976496

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Pat Barker and the Mediation of Social Reality by David F. Waterman Pdf

"Pat Barker is one of the most compelling of the current generation of British novelists, especially in her use of the novel as an instrument of social critique, fashioning a literature which does not shy away from asking thorny questions, refusing the doctrinaire of what goes without saying, suspicious of simple answers. In this critical study, David Waterman examines questions of social representation in all of Pat Barker's novels, published over the last twenty-five years, from Union Street (1982) to the recent Life Class (2007), especially the ways in which Barker encourages us to interrogate the reality created by such conventionalizing, prescriptive representations in favor of a reality more accurately represented through a critical assessment of the uses and abuses of collective representations." --Book Jacket.

Author : Mark Rawlinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137104700

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Pat Barker by Mark Rawlinson Pdf

Pat Barker is one of the leading British political and historical novelists of her generation. This introduction places her fiction in historical and theoretical contexts. Including a timeline of key dates and an interview with the author, Rawlinson establishes the cultural importance of her work and provides an overview of its critical reception.

Author : Pat Barker
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385546706

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The Women of Troy by Pat Barker Pdf

A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post). Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.

Author : Rod Mengham,Philip Tew
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441181053

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British Fiction Today by Rod Mengham,Philip Tew Pdf

British Fiction Today provides students and readers with a critical introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 and provides the latest critical perspectives on current British fiction. It offers comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of a broad range of selected contemporary authors, drawing together both established and emerging literary voices reflecting the scope of the new British writing. The book is organised around common themes - Modern Lives, Contemporary Living; Dreamtime; States of Identity and Histories. Each section begins with a short introductory essay and ends with a guide to further reading. Introducing key works, writers and major themes including post-colonialism, pluralism, gender and history, this book is the ideal guide to British fiction today. Includes discussion of Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Alan Hollinghurst, Peter Ackroyd, Jenny Diski, Ben Okri, Salman Rushdie, Toby Litt, Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Jeanetter Winterson, Pat Barker, A S Byatt, Adam Thorpe and Sarah Waters.

Author : Sharon Monteith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0746312237

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Pat Barker by Sharon Monteith Pdf

The first full-length evaluation of the Booker prize-winning novelist ( for The Ghost Road) whose fiction explores issues of gender and class, violence and memory, across the generations in 20th century Britain.

Author : Nick Bentley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137009654

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Contemporary British Fiction by Nick Bentley Pdf

This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a range of British novelists including Monica Ali, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson. Exploring experiments with literary form, this authoritative book considers cutting-edge concerns relating to the neo-historical novel, the relationship between literature and science, literary geographies, and trauma narratives. Engaging with key literary theories, and identifying present trends and future directions in the literary criticism of contemporary British fiction, this is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of English literature, teachers, researchers and scholars.

Author : Pat Barker
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241967096

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The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker Pdf

The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker's sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction. 1917, Scotland. At Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the front. In his care are poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. . . Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road follow the stories of these men until the last months of the war. Widely acclaimed and admired, Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy paints with moving detail the far-reaching consequences of a conflict which decimated a generation. 'Harrowing, original, delicate and unforgettable' Independent 'A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male and female, soldiers and civilians. Constantly surprising and formally superb' A. S. Byatt, Daily Telegraph 'One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction' Jonathan Coe Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration (1991); which was made into a film of the same name; The Eye in the Door (1993), which won the Guardian Fiction Prize; and The Ghost Road (1995), which won the Booker Prize, as well as the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, Life Class and Toby's Room. She lives in Durham.