22 English Journal 99.4 (2010): 22–29 by a variety of new terms such as literary nonfiction, creative nonfiction, and documentary narrative. What distinguished these writings from conventional factual and informational texts was that they were not only well-researched accounts of real events or experiences but also artful narratives. They employed literary techniques borrowed from modern and po...

Is classical tragedy contingent upon a Greco-Roman sense of morality? Or can tragedy exist within a Judeo-Christian universe as well? Literary critic Northrop Frye’s theory of high-mimetic tragedy inherits distinctions that Aristotle draws between tragedy and comedy in the Poetics. As a brief philological excursion will demonstrate, the binary distinctions upon which Aristotle builds his tragic...

Reader-response criticism maintains that the interpretive activities of readers, rather than the author’s intention or the text’s structure, explain a text’s significance and aesthetic value. Biographical accounts of how a writer responds to his or her critics initiated this kind of criticism. That is, since a writer may respond to commentary provided by friends, reviewers, or critics, biograph...

This thesis aims to provide a case study for a critical theory of mythopoetics, via analysis of four ‘Brexit narratives’: The Bad Boys of Brexit by Arron Banks, Unleashing Demons by Craig Oliver, All Out War by Tim Shipman and The Brexit Club by Owen Bennett. My objective is to demonstrate the prevalence of mythopoetics in political and historical discourse, via analysis of four competing polit...

Dr. Tahir Taunsvi is a distinguished researcher, critic and poet of Urdu language literature. The most important aspect his literary work based on research criticism. He made useful contributions in the field poetry as well. His book was published by “Bazam e Elam o Fun Pakistan” 2001 AD. This consists impressive poems, poetics , “Hamd”, “Naat”, “Manqabat” “Slaam”. poems connect readers to trad...

When Christopher Langton first coined the term "artificial life" and organized the first conference of the nascent field in 1989, he envisioned that "We would like to build models that are so life‐like that they cease to become models of life and become examples of life themselves.” (Langton 1989). When Thomas Ray referred to his Tierra creatures four years later, he said: "These are not models...

Heuristic Dynamic Programming (HDP) is the simplest kind of Adaptive Critic which is a powerful form of reinforcement control 1]. It can be used to maximize or minimize any utility function, such as total energy or trajectory error, of a system over time in a noisy environment. Unlike supervised learning, adaptive critic design does not require the desired control signals be known. Instead, fee...