Paper Topic for REGENERATION, due 12/8/09 4pp.

Topic #1: This novel intersects with the theme of the course in fascinating and multivalent ways. Focusing on one or two characters and their association with Dr. Rivers, explore the complexities of speech and silence in their relationship and possibly in Rivers' own psyche.

Topic #2: The novel features several fathers and father-figures, men who act as authorities or mentors to younger or subordinate men. Focussing on one or two paternal or paternalistic relationships, consider the representation of fathers in the novel. Since protests against the war were often couched in generational terms (see Sassoon's "They" and "The General" and Owens' "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"), do relationships between men in the novel parallel that generational conflict? Pay attention too to characters who talk about themselves as fathers or sons.