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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... dark , savage brains had roamed and roared their challenges into the steaming night . Now they were still here , or , put it as you will , the chemicals that made them were here about me in the ground . The carbon that had driven them ...
... dark side of one's nature is to store up or accumulate the dark- ness ; this is later expressed as a black mood , psychosomatic illness , or uncon- sciously inspired accidents . We are presently dealing with the accumulation of a whole ...
... dark , almost black , and the rain clouds had obliterated the higher peaks . With the growing darkness came the stillness , the hush , that so often precedes a tropical downpour . Only the rumbling of the thunder , moving closer and ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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