Just as writers use specific literary devices to deliberately draw attention to a poem's form, in this paper I propose that game designers can make use of the structure of gameplay to draw attention to a game's formal qualities for "poetic" effect. Starting from Shklovsky's notion of defamiliarization and Utterback's concept of the poetic interface, I draw parallels between poetic language and ...

This paper explores whether DICTION text analysis software reveals distinctive language markers of a verbal tone of hubris in annual letters to shareholders signed by CEOs of major companies. We analyze 193 letters to shareholders, comprising about 368,000 words, focusing initially on 23 letters signed by CEOs who are alleged to be hubristic: Browne (BP), Goodwin (Royal Bank of Scotland) and Mu...

Tennessee Williams attaches great emphasis to the poetic quality of his drama and contributes to the development of the dramatic form, poetic realism, by injecting the elements and spirit of poetry into every aspect of his dramaturgy. The thesis intends to analyze the characteristics and the achievements of the dramatic form of Williams’ “poetic realism” in A Streetcar Named Desire in terms of ...

This paper describes a new evolutionary mechanism developed specifically for cellular circuits. Called morphogenetic system, it is inspired by the mechanisms of gene expression and cell differentiation found in living organisms. It will be used as the phylogenetic (evolutionary) mechanism in the POEtic project. The POEtic project will deliver an electronic circuit, called the POEtic circuit, wi...

For a long time, there have been the mountainous discussions about intertexuality in the field of novelist narrative studies by scholars from China and western countries in their academic practices in terms of the in-textual responses from a novelist narrative text to another produced either by the same writer or by different novelists based on the academic focus of the textual influences from ...

Between February 14 th and 16 th of 2013, some sixty scholars from a wide variety of disciplines includ-finance, and accounting came to Austin, Texas to exchange ideas about the language of institutions. Most of them had never met before and many had nothing in common except one thing – they had used the same computer program to do their work. The software they used, DICTION (www.dictionsoftwar...

Using Negative Correlation to Evolve Fault-Tolerant Circuits p. 35 A Genetic Representation for Evolutionary Fault Recovery in Virtex FPGAs p. 47 Biologically Inspired Evolutionary Development p. 57 Building Knowledge into Developmental Rules for Circuit Design p. 69 Evolving Fractal Proteins p. 81 A Developmental Method for Growing Graphs and Circuits p. 93 Developmental Models for Emergent Co...

AbstractStylistics of Life Themed Poetry in Anthologies "Malam Ini Aku Akan Tidur di Matamu" by Joko Pinurbo. This study aims to describe the stylistic aspects life-themed poetry book “Malam Matamu” The method used is descriptive with a approach. steps data analysis are grouping based on aspects, analyzing forms, describing and concluding results analysis. this indicate that there which include...

This thesis proposes an account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes in the light of recent developments in pragmatic theory. More specifically it discusses and attempts to develop the relevance theory account of poetic effects. Much recent debate in literary studies has centred on the question as to whether literary communication is best explained in terms...