Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Rhetoric and Reader for WritersThis best-selling collection of readings explores the theme of dreams, the imagination, and the heart connected to the reasoning mind. Supporting a creative approach to the teaching of writing, Dreams and Inward Journeys presents a rich mixture of reflective essays, stories, and poems. Thematically focused on dream-related topics, the readings chapters discuss such topics as memory, myths/fairy tales, obsessions, sexuality, gender roles, the other, technology, popular culture, nature, and spirituality. Readings move from the personal to the abstract, encouraging students to investigate new ways of seeing and understanding themselves and their relationship to fundamental social issues and universal human concerns. Featuring a dual thematic and rhetorical organization, each chapter also provides practical writing advice on a specific rhetorical pattern, strategies for writing, critical thinking questions, and two to three student sample papers. Beautiful, stimulating art opens each chapter to support the theme and provide prompts for prewriting. |
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... Nargis ' Toilette " ( poem ) 318 " Now all is ready / Like a black candle / Nargis walks to the gate . " Maxine Hong Kingston , " No Name Woman ” ( essay ) 321 " Carrying the baby to the well shows loving . Otherwise abandon it . Turn ...
... Nargis ' Toilette Born in Calcutta , India , Chitra Divakaruni received a B.A. from the University of Calcutta and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985. Divakaruni has taught English and ...
... Nargis ' hands . They braid , down her back , the forest's long shadows , their laughter like the silver anklets they are tying to her feet . Today the women will take Nargis to visit the women of the Amin family . They will drink ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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