Reflection has become a core interest for game designers. However, empirical research into the kinds and causes for reflection within games is scarce. We therefore conducted an online questionnaire where participants (n=101) openly reported perspective-challenging moments within games, their causes, experience, and impact. Where past work has emphasized transformative reflection that changes player's views and behavior outside the game, we found that players report predominantly moments of 'endo'-transformative reflection, which is focused on players' game-related behavior and concepts. We further identify some causes of perspective-challenging moments relating to narrative, game systems, game-external sources, and player expectations. Narrative reveals emerge as a key cause of perspective challenge.

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Desire without History@@@Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative

"One of the baddies all along": Moments that Challenge a Player's Perspective

Autobiography, Narrative, and the Freudian Concept of Life History

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Writing civilisation: the historical novel in the Colombian national project

The Beginnings of Islamic Law is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law. Scrutinizing its historical contexts, the book proposes that Islamic law is a continuous intermingling of innovation and tradition. Salaymeh challenges the embedded assumptions in conventional Islamic legal historiography by developing a critical approach to the study of both Islamic and Jewish legal history. Through case studies of the treatment of war prisoners, circumcision, and wife-initiated divorce, she examines how Muslim jurists incorporated and transformed 'Near Eastern' legal traditions. She also demonstrates how socio-political and historical situations shaped the everyday practice of law, legal education, and the organization of the legal profession in the late antique and medieval eras. Aimed at scholars and students interested in Islamic history, Islamic law, and the relationship between Jewish and Islamic legal traditions, this book's interdisciplinary approach provides accessible explanations and translations of complex materials and ideas.

The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions

Preface 1 The pre-history of Romantic time 2 Coleridge's lyric 'moment' 3 Wordsworth's evening voluntaries 4 Shelley's 'woven hymns of night and day' 5 Keats and the 'Luxury of Twilight' 6 Later inventions

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Desire without History@@@Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative

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"One of the baddies all along": Moments that Challenge a Player's Perspective

Autobiography, Narrative, and the Freudian Concept of Life History

Writing civilisation: the historical novel in the Colombian national project

The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions

The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry