Regeneration
Pat Barker
Using the internet to support your AS study

W H R Rivers – one of the pictures available on the internet
Use the following links to help support your reading of the text:
- For a Freudian reading of the novel click below:
http://www.freud.org.uk/warneuroses.html
- You might find this short overview useful:
http://www.skyminds.net/lit_gb/ww1_regeneration.php
- Here is some information about the novel and about the characters in it, the page also poses some questions which might well be worth considering as you navigate the novel yourself:
http://www.mtmercy.edu/classes/barkerqu.htm
- Check this out! The journal of the Craiglockhart Hospital, edited by Owen for a while:
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/hydra/
Here is Owen’s poem ‘Song of Songs’ which appeared for the first time in ‘The Hydra’ and can be found on the site above:

- Very useful links for poets and historical information:
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~english/WWI/main/website.html
- From here you can find potted biographies and other interesting information about WW1 literature:
http://www.sassoonery.demon.co.uk/contents.htm
- You might find the Wilfred Owen Mutlimedia Archive useful:
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/
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