Re: Business Poetry

[tarversj@winthrop.edu (JO KOSTER TARVERS)]

WINTHROP UNIVERSITY                               Electronic Mail Message
                                        Date:     02-Nov-1996 06:20am EDT
                                        From:     Josephine K. Tarvers
                                                  TARVERSJ
                                        Dept:     English
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Subject: Re: Business Poetry

Mill, Dickens' _Hard Times_ has worked well for me when I have a lot of 
sci/eng/math types. If you're looking for shorter things to teach techniques, I 
highly highly recommend two short stories by Arthur C. Clarke: "The Nine Billion 
Names of God" (about the ironic power of computers) and "The Star" (which I 
always teach the week before Christmas break). Things like Swift's "Description 
of a City Shower," any of the ironic Byron stuff (Cantos 1-3 of _Don Juan_ 
esp.), _The Metamorphosis_, Melville's _Bartleby_--all these have worked well 
for that crowd.

Have fun!

Jo
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Jo Koster Tarvers
Department of English and Writing Center
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC 29733 USA
(803-323-4557 voice) (803-323-4837 fax)
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"Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday."