In lycée with Mister B. : « baïonnette »

Une collègue signale la disparition d’une baïonnette de la Première Guerre mondiale au lycée ; l’auteur partage cette inquiétante anecdote scolaire.

A transformed vision of time in Regeneration

Analyse how Pat Barker transforms time in Regeneration through trauma, memory, hallucination, flashback, repetition and shell shock.

Landscape and mindscape in Regeneration: Burns, trauma and nature

Analyse landscape and mindscape in Pat Barker’s Regeneration through Burns, trauma, focalisation, hostile nature and the return of war memory.

Historical figures and fictional characters in Regeneration

Analyse how Pat Barker blends real historical figures and fictional characters in Regeneration to explore war trauma, memory, class and moral conflict.

First dialogue between Rivers and Sassoon in Regeneration

Analyse the first dialogue between Rivers and Sassoon in Pat Barker’s Regeneration: sanity, protest, duty, therapy and moral conflict.

The plot in Regeneration by Pat Barker: transformation, trauma and return

Analyse the plot of Pat Barker’s Regeneration through Sassoon, Rivers, Prior, trauma, Craiglockhart and the moral problem of return.

The setting in Regeneration by Pat Barker: Craiglockhart as a second battlefield

Analyse the setting in Pat Barker’s Regeneration: Craiglockhart, the home front, darkness, nature, war trauma and symbolic spaces.

Introduction to Regeneration by Pat Barker: war trauma, history and fiction

Introduction to Pat Barker’s Regeneration: historical fiction, Craiglockhart, shell shock, Rivers, Sassoon, Owen and the trauma of World War One.

War Poet: Wilfred Owen, Poetry and the Pity of War

Study Wilfred Owen’s war poetry, biography, influences, shell shock, Craiglockhart, Sassoon, realism, irony and the famous “pity of war”.

World War One poetry: why war poetry became a literary problem

Trace World War One poetry from patriotic sacrifice to trench disillusionment, with Owen, Sassoon, Thomas and Rosenberg and questions about the canon.