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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... emotional response . " Next , you will need one or more details or qualifying phrases to distinguish your term from others in the larger group of strong emotions : " An obsession is an emotional response or preoccupation that is ...
... emotion , the meaninglessness of life itself , be- comes self - evident . The only feeling left in this loveless ... emotional pain that forces itself on us against our will , and then breaks free of its externals . Depression is not ...
... Emotions play such a significant role in our lives that any argument that tried to be totally rational , pretending that emotional concerns were unim- portant and that only facts have significance would be unrealistic and inef- fective ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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