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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... boy who is called a fag is the target of other boys ' homophobia as well as the victim of his own homophobia . While the overt message is the absolute need to avoid being feminized , the implication is that females - and all that they ...
... boys experience short - term success for their toughness , there is little security in the long run . Instead , it leads to a series of challenges which few , if any , boys ultimately win . There is no security in being at the top when ...
... boys , knowing that they were safe from the threat of being sexually harassed . Boys would no longer boast of beating up another boy or of how much they " got off ” of a girl the night before . In fact , the boys would be as outraged as ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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