Academic literature on the topic 'Mock epic'

Voltaire was a poet first and foremost, in his own eyes as well as in the eyes of his contemporaries, and throughout his long life he never stopped writing verse. ‘The Epicurean poet’ explains how Epicureanism shaped Voltaire’s thinking and how he took a paradoxical stance in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns. It describes his early epic poem La Henriade and his libertine verse such as La Pucelle, a bawdy mock epic poem about Joan of Arc. It also discusses his poem Stances à Mme Du Châtelet, composed in 1741, which typifies Voltaire’s lyric voice at its most persuasive.

Abstract This chapter examines how John Milton redefined epic, and then how John Dryden reshaped aspects of heroism and employed mock epic, before he returned, after losing his public posts, to translate the great Virgilian epic, The Aeneid. Over the course of the seventeenth century, epic evolved in the crucible of Mikhail Bakhtin’s ‘zone of . . . contact’ of civil war, regicide, the republic, and the Restoration from an idealised genre into a vehicle for confronting the reality of martial violence and political subterfuge. Despite Milton’s scorn for Augustan theories of language, he, along with the Augustans, including Dryden and Samuel Butler, transformed epic from a genre celebrating war and martial heroism into something that looks more forthrightly at such violence and its causes.

Abstract This paper will showcase efforts of a Gold standard engineering team, through multiple fit for purpose and innovative solutions which were adapted as part of process optimization during RE-FEED in order to achieve excellence in capex saving in a mega project of ADNOC onshore. The efficient and best in class engineering design led to permanent solution for problems in a vast field which is profoundly challenged for handling oil, gas and water. Lesson learnt from this project has become eye opener and became benchmark. Another success story was made through this project. This mega project for production sustainability was challenged due to significant CAPEX requirement. Comprehensive cost optimization was sought by management. As reciprocation, In house process engineering team undertook a daunting task to modify/optimize scheme of unit processes of the project through simulations, detailed analysis of profile, calculations and process optimizations. Following methods were applied to achieve the success. Process optimizations at core – "one solution for addressing multiple problems" Simplifying the surface facility process scheme Alternative method of design and out of box ideas which resulted in impactful cost optimization Plateau Oil production of this onshore field was hindered by field and CDS congestion, high water cut, limitations in Oil and produced water handling capacity in CDS. After implementation of process optimizations and innovative solutions, following observations and conclusions were made and included in FEED design. Dewatering station at upstream : This was recognized as one point solution for multiple problems. Removal of water at upstream reduced back pressure in existing transfer lines drastically and led to non-requirement of new transfer lines hence decongestion and allowed oil-water separation requirement within limits of existing facilities’ capacity. Deletions of a new CDS with two oil trains complete with all utility and flare facilities and transferring facilities for oil, associated gas, produced water, gas injection leads to a significant OPEX and CAPEX saving. Innovative solutions such as placing HP and LLP flare at the same structure to reduce footprint, combining water separation tank and disposal tank, deletion of produced water degasser with the help of HIPPS, transferring high H2S off gases from water separation tanks of RDSs to CDS stripper overhead were a few to be named. Optimized design such as usage of rationalized MOC, deleting flare packages in remote 15 PADs / Minipads, optimized footprints resulted in CAPEX saving. Thus, the multibillion project CAPEX was almost reduced to 60% by teamwork of a young process engineering team. Through a tremendous efforts in REFEED stage. This paper will reflect how ideation will pave the way for achieving great success. A relentless process optimization approach to continuously challenge the design while focusing on achieving design functions resulted into great saving for company. How a simple idea of Dewatering at upstream solved multiple problems in a field, how the success of one idea gives birth to many more and how a comparatively young engineering team was engaged with utmost sincerity in quest of solutions….answer of all these questions definitely lead to Novel category as team acted differently and earned COMPANY's trust to award for EPC.