Stephen Dixon's Novels: Autobiographicality as Transgression

Speech deficits as plot devices in novels.

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Play as Transgression: An Ethnographic Approach to Queer Game Cultures

This paper is based on an ongoing ethnography of a GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) guild in the MMOG World of Warcraft. Drawing on queer/feminist theory, the argument concentrates on sexuality as resource for ‘transgressive play’. The notion of transgressive play is usually taken to mean play against the ‘ideal’ or ‘implied’ player of the game, of playing the game in ways not anticip...

Neurological speech deficits as plot devices in novels.

Stroke is a leading cause of death worldwide and a common cause of disability in adults in developed countries. Most strokes are not fatal and, in contrast to coronary artery disease and cancer, the major burden of stroke is chronic disability rather than death. It is unsurprising, therefore, that characters with stroke appear frequently in literature, although sometimes the diagnosis is wrong....

Codification As Judicial Empowerment – The Stephen Code

Codification As Judicial Empowerment – The Stephen Code