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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... culture - like classical music and opera — will become marginalized as mainstream culture pursues a digital path . " Unlike the technological arguments that we saw earlier , the distinction he now makes seems more class - based . It ...
... culture demands that we live out only part of our nature and refuse other parts of our inheritance . We divide the self into an ego and a shadow because our culture insists that we behave in a particular manner . This is our legacy from ...
... culture , village life seems primitive , silly , and inefficient . The one - dimensional view of modern life be- comes a slap in the face . Young Ladakhis - whose parents ask them to choose a way of life that involves working in the ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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