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Breathing underwater
Seventeen-year-old competitive swimmer Tess Cooper grapples with the upheaval of her carefully planned future following an epilepsy diagnosis, and works to get back in the pool despite her doctor's advice or her disctracting feelings for the new guy.
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Meena meets her match
\"Third-grader Meena Zee navigates the triumphs and challenges of family, friendship, and school while being diagnosed with epilepsy\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Multiple Framings and the Risks of Fictionality
[...]as it distinguishes between fictionality and generic fiction, it enables scholars to explore how fictionality is deployed across a range of genres and discourses, such as literary nonfiction, graphic novel and memoir, autofiction, documentary, political speech, and TV commercial.3 Second, highlighting fictionality as an integral part of communication, this notion draws attention to the communicative effects of fictionality in context, inviting discussion on how fictionality (re)shapes our view of, and engagement with, the real world. In her response to Walsh's 2019 essay, Maria Mäkelä aptly remarks that fictionality may suppress constructive dialogue in the post-truth era because it resists fact checking and direct counterarguments: \"one cannot challenge [a fictive account] by providing contrasting information, expert points of view, or data, and what one is left with is an invitation to react affectively\" (459). Through a close analysis of lay readers' book reviews, Lanser argues that readers often seek to glean factual information from literary fiction; therefore, even if fantastical elements are clearly seen as fictional, they may still be regarded as an inhibition of the (directly informative) kind of relevance readers expect. In the first substantial chapter, she warns that her account of epilepsy, which runs throughout the whole book, is perhaps not a factual account but \"just a clenched metaphor, a way of telling you what I have to tell you: my tale\" (6; emphasis added here and in rest of this paragraph).
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Sunny on alert! : a seizure-alert dog story
The students in Mastiff Middle School's sixth-grade class, meet Sunny, a working dog that helps detect siezures in classmate Max who has epilepsy.
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Neurological Disorders in Literary Fiction: A Single Author Case Series
Background: Across literary fiction, allusions to medical ailments are common. However, in the bibliography of Stephen King, neurological disorders appear to be present disproportionately.
Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the epidemiology of neurologic disorders depicted in the writings of Stephen King.
Methods: This study presents data from Stephen King's 60 published novels. The frequency, prevalence, lethality, and mortality of each neurological diagnosis found in the characters that appear in the novels are reported.
Results: Forty-eight novels portrayed at least one character with a neurological diagnosis, and in total, 150 characters exhibited a neurological condition. The overall prevalence was 111.2 per 1,000 characters. Their median age was 20 years (range 76), and 61.7% were males. Headache was the most common symptom (35.3%), followed by stroke symptoms in 28.7%. Prevalence was 24.5, 17.8 for headache and epilepsy, respectively. Lethality was 28.7%. The overall mortality rate was 31.9.
Conclusions: The epidemiology described in Stephen King's novels parallels that of the real world. The depiction of neurological disorders found in his novels showcases the elevated contribution of neurological disorders to the global burden of the disease, an important message for the readers of his fiction and interest to all neurologists.
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100 sideways miles
Finn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to feel like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandez, and first love, Julia, until Julia moves away.
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World Building and Design of an Immersive Educational Escape Room: Its Impact on Immersion
Esta dissertação centra-se em World Building e no processo de conceção de Escape Rooms Educativos e Imersivos (IEER), em que consiste, e o seu impacto sobre a imersão. Neste sentido, aborda o World Design por detrás de um IEER e o seu impacto nos jogadores. A primeira fase envolveu investigação experimental imersiva. Para assegurar dados suficientes para complementar este projeto, houve contacto direto com o próprio IEER e trabalho colaborativo numa equipa multidisciplinar, permitindo o desenvolvimento da investigação, que envolve um alvo diferente.O nosso objetivo é compreender melhor como o World Design afeta a imersão e como abordar questões de adaptabilidade para jogos educativos, especificamente, fotossensibilidade, epilepsia e daltonismo. Foram desenvolvidos dois protótipos: o protótipo 1, um IEER 2D com narrativa imersiva; e o protótipo 2, um IEER 3D sem narrativa ou feedback. Ambos os protótipos foram testados e os dados recolhidos foram estudados, permitindo reunir conclusões para uma melhor compreensão de como os Escape Rooms Educativos e Imersivos podem evoluir.Relativamente às ferramentas utilizadas para gerar as paletas cromáticas de cada protótipo, foi possível concluir que funcionaram e permitiram aplicar a teoria da cor, melhorando a experiência do utilizador. No entanto, verificou-se que estas não foram suficientemente eficazes para tornar os protótipos totalmente seguros e acessíveis, pelo que é necessária mais pesquisa neste campo. Em quase todos os parâmetros, o protótipo 1 foi o preferido dos participantes, sendo mais intuitivo, imersivo e educativo. Todavia, os resultados obtidos sugerem que o protótipo 2 seria considerado mais imersivo se tivesse uma narrativa imersiva. O parâmetro da adaptabilidade foi o único com resultados inconclusivos, sendo evidente a necessidade de continuar a investigar.Independentemente do protótipo, todos os participantes consideraram que os IEERs têm valor educativo, o que permite concluir que há interesse e relevância em continuar a explorar como é que os IEERs podem ser utilizados em ambiente de ensino e aprendizagem, como podem ser melhorados e como os tornar uma ferramenta acessível.
Dissertation
The arsonist
Molly Mavity and Pepper Yusef are dealing with their own personal tragedies when they are tasked by an anonymous person with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenager whose diary was published after her death.
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Trauma's internal transformation: anticipating unconsciousness in The Master of Petersburg
This article parts ways both with conventional application of trauma theory to J.M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg and with critical evaluations that focus primarily on metafiction and allegory. Instead, I argue that Dostoevsky's attempts to mourn Pavel involve a sustained meditation on the traumatized mind examining the conditions of its own trauma, figured in a character suffering from unexpected fits of epilepsy (as the real-life Dostoevsky did). First, I demonstrate how working through trauma in literary studies is predicated on psychoanalytic precepts of active focus and temporal unity. I then read the topic of unconsciousness through Jean-Luc Nancy's theorization of sleep as a passive \"endomorphosis\" that suggests the approach of transformation without actualizing that transformation. Finally, I argue that by focusing on Dostoevsky's imminent loss of consciousness, The Master of Petersburg compels the reader to inhabit what Dominick LaCapra describes as an intermediary zone between acting out and working through trauma, a zone characterized by the productive dispersal of readerly focus. In so doing, The Master of Petersburg offers a critique of institutional and political modes of reconciliation that, in post-apartheid South Africa, tend to substitute the expediency of institutional justice for the complexity of lived traumatic experience.
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