Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Rhetoric and Reader for WritersA truly unique book in its field, Dreams and Inward Journeys,4/e explores the relationships between self-understanding, reading and writing. Chapters include reflective essays, poems, memory, gender roles, the anti-self, social definitions of self, and the visionary process itself. The emphasis on dreams and the imagination has been proven to excite and motivate students. |
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Page 15
... Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe ; most experiences are unsayable , they happen in a space that no word has ever entered , and more unsayable than all other things are works of art ...
... Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe ; most experiences are unsayable , they happen in a space that no word has ever entered , and more unsayable than all other things are works of art ...
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... things , I felt this rich- ness . One thing would lead to another ; the world would give and give . Now , after twenty years or so of trying , I live by that certain richness , an idea hard to pin , dif- ficult to say , and perhaps ...
... things , I felt this rich- ness . One thing would lead to another ; the world would give and give . Now , after twenty years or so of trying , I live by that certain richness , an idea hard to pin , dif- ficult to say , and perhaps ...
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... things — indeed , the road behind was strewn with the things we all had dropped ; and the white dust was settling down on them , so that already they looked no better than stones . My muscles were so weary that I could not even bear the ...
... things — indeed , the road behind was strewn with the things we all had dropped ; and the white dust was settling down on them , so that already they looked no better than stones . My muscles were so weary that I could not even bear the ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves in Writing | 1 |
Merle Woo Poem for the Creative Writing Class | 12 |
Julia Alvarez Writing Matters essay | 20 |
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