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PubMed1978

Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky's involuntary contribution to the sympotomatology and prognosis of epilepsy. William G. Lennox Lecture, 1977.

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Epilepsy↗

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Images of epilepsy in literature.

Literature primarily reflects and affirms existing attitudes and conceptions regarding the epilepsy population. In the fiction of many nations for many centuries, individuals with epilepsy have emerged as evil or saintly, as geniuses, or as objects of pity whose lives were not worth living. The character who had epilepsy was outside the realm of personal identification--too far beneath or too far above us. Nevertheless, there were exceptions. Literature, as well as film and television, especially in the last 2 decades, has shown both readers and audiences that there are human beings who have epilepsy (rather than who are epileptics). These human beings are simply part of the continuum of what we know as normal: no more and no less than merely human.

Bible↗

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Charles Dickens and epilepsy.

Through some characters in his novels, Charles Dickens recorded observations on the nature of epileptic seizures, their causes and provocation, and their consequences. Three of his main characters, Monks, Guster, and Bradley Headstone, had seizures which Dickens realistically described.

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PubMed1995

Epilepsy in twentieth century literature.

Literature can be viewed as a mirror that reflects society's attitude toward epilepsy. This article examines how epilepsy is portrayed in selected twentieth century literary works. Although these works were written by intellectuals, they still offer an image of epilepsy as a phenomenon characterized by supernatural features.

Epilepsy↗

PubMed1995

Tryggve Andersen: epileptic hallucinations in the 1890s, fact or fiction?

The Norwegian author Tryggve Andersen (1867-1920) had epilepsy, but was not aware of the diagnosis until late in life. In one novel, Towards Night (Mot Kvaeld), published in 1900, he described in detail nocturnal attacks with formed visual hallucinations as the initial event, seeing always the same face. He was familiar with the works of Ernst Hoffmann and probably also with those of Fiodor Dostoyevsky, but deduction of the literary influence leaves a precise description corresponding to an epileptogenic focus in the right posterotemporal region. Knowledge of his work may elucidate the subjective experience of initial epileptic manifestations, uncontaminated by previous knowledge of what can be expected in epilepsy. The descriptions provided by Andersen's writings are compared with more formal contemporary definitions of seizure events.

Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe↗

PubMed2006