Critical Perspectives on Pat BarkerSharon Monteith Univ of South Carolina Press, 2005 - 314 Seiten Critical Perspectives on Pat Barker brings together an international roster of scholars who pay detailed attention to the work and career of this prizewinning British writer, providing critical insight into each of her nine novels, from Union Street (1982) through the Regeneration trilogy (1991-95) to Double Vision (2003). The eighteen essays in the volume are organized into five sections: Writing Working-Class Women, Dialogue under Pressure, Men at War, The Talking Cure, and Regenerating the Wasteland. Taken individually, each of the essays yields a variety of insights into Barker's fictions; taken as a whole, the collection provides a fresh and timely overview of Barker's oeuvre and her creative exploration of society. |
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JOHN BRANNIGAN | 3 |
SARAH BROPHY | 24 |
SARAH DANIELS | 40 |
CARINA BARTLEET | 87 |
JENNY NEWMAN | 101 |
Cinema | 115 |
The Man Who Wasnt There | 128 |
RONALD PAUL | 147 |
SHERYL STEVENSON | 175 |
ANNE WHITEHEAD | 203 |
SHERYL STEVENSON | 219 |
MARGARETTA JOLLY | 235 |
HEATHER NUNN AND ANITA BIRESSI | 254 |
SHARON MONTEITH AND NAHEM YOUSAF | 283 |
Contributors | 301 |
KARIN E WESTMAN | 162 |
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Alice argues Bakhtin Barker Barker's novel becomes Billy Prior Blow Your House body Border Crossing BRENDA British CAROL characters chicken childhood CLIENT Colin conflict contemporary Craiglockhart cultural Daniels's Danny dead death depiction dialogue Donna Perry Door Double Vision dream emotional essay experience exploration eyes factory fantasy father feel feminist film Freud fucking gender Geordie Geordie's Ghost Road GREG hypnosis images imagination JEAN Jekyll and Hyde KATH Kath's Kelly literary lives Liza Liza's England London look MAGGIE male masculinity maternal memory Mikhail Bakhtin mother murder narrative Owen past pastoral Pat Barker patients Paul Fussell play POLICEWOMAN political postmodern prostitutes psychoanalysis reader Regeneration trilogy relationship Rivers's Sassoon scene sexual Sharon Monteith shell shock Siegfried Sassoon silence social soldiers Stephen story symbolic tion trauma Union Street violence W. H. R. Rivers Wilfred Owen women working-class World writing young