Saving Alicia is a creative thesis written to explore the possibility of
incorporating some non-fictional concepts of neurophysiology into a work of
fiction. The initial component presents the historical and contemporary
context in which such a work is written along with an analysis of the writing
techniques employed by other writers in the field. It sets out the aim of the
subsequent creative composition.
The second, and major, component of this thesis is a work of fiction. A story
is developed in which the protagonist, a young woman, revives her deceased
mother's neurophysiological research work in the hope that it will help her
brain-damaged niece, Alicia, recover. For this she is dependent on two men
who were her mother's colleagues. As they compete for her attention, while
pursuing their own conflicting goals, the protagonist maintains her
determination to keep her mother's work going. She has no prior knowledge
of neurophysiology and, so that she can understand the research, she is keen
to learn some of its basic concepts.
Woven through the story of Saving Alicia are descriptions of neurons and their
physiology. This is presented to the protagonist through the mouths of the
two researchers. In this way, the non-fiction is interspersed with the fiction.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/218765 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Bridgewater, Gillian, n/a |
| Publisher | University of Canberra. Creative Communication & Culture Studies |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | ), Copyright Gillian Bridgewater |
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