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Type: | Theses |
Title: | One Sunday in Picardy |
Author: | Ahern, Eleanor Christine |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
School/Discipline: | School of Humanities |
Abstract: | “One Sunday in Picardy” is a work of fiction set in northern France during The First World War. Jack, an Australian doctor, returns to see his young fiancée Georgette in a French village on his way to the second Battle of the Somme. After assisting the wounded at the front for two years, he is unable to remember events during one fierce battle for which he was decorated; his thoughts are plagued by images and sensations related to the battlefield. Georgette, now nearly eighteen, finds Jack changed and is uneasy as the likelihood grows of an enemy attack, threatening the château which is her family home. To keep up the battalion’s spirits, Solaine, the matriarch of the family, hosts a sports day in the grounds and a grand dinner in the evening for the officers. Jack’s batman Pat, a childhood friend who is interested in Georgette’s sister Élise, goes to check on his brother Tom in the woods near the front. At the same time the body of the ace pilot Manfred von Richthofen, shot down nearby, is secretly brought to the château to be washed. The stories of these characters unfold as the bombardment builds up around them. |
Advisor: | Castro, Brian Butterss, Philip |
Dissertation Note: | Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2016. |
Keywords: | creative writing olfaction First World War post-traumatic stress |
Description: | Vol. 1 [Creative work] One Sunday in Picardy -- Vol. 2 [Exegesis] The Olfactory Sift in the literature of the First World War: The reawakening of smell |
Provenance: | This electronic version is made publicly available by the University of Adelaide in accordance with its open access policy for student theses. Copyright in this thesis remains with the author. This thesis may incorporate third party material which has been used by the author pursuant to Fair Dealing exceptions. If you are the owner of any included third party copyright material you wish to be removed from this electronic version, please complete the take down form located at: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/legals |
DOI: | 10.25909/5b99df62701d7 |
Appears in Collections: | Research Theses |
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01front.pdf | Novel | 165.91 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
02whole.pdf | Novel | 985.42 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
03front.pdf | Exegesis | 169.68 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
04whole.pdf | Exegesis | 529.88 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Permissions Restricted Access | Library staff access only | 286.82 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Restricted_1 Restricted Access | Library staff access only | 1.02 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Restricted_2 Restricted Access | Library staff access only | 547.43 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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