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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... child fits un- conscious content into conscious fantasies , which then enable him to deal with that content . It is here that fairy tales have unequaled value , because they offer new dimensions to the child's imagination which would be ...
... child's mind , it also dominates fairy tales . A person is either good or bad , nothing in between . One brother is stupid , the other is clever . One sister is virtuous and industrious , the others are vile and lazy . One is beautiful ...
... child's fears . The fairy tale , by contrast , takes these existential anxieties and dilemmas very seriously and addresses itself directly to them : the need to be loved and the fear that one is thought worthless ; the love of life ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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