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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... eyes stare at you upside down . I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness . Up and down and sideways they crawl , and those absurd unblinking eyes are every- where . There is one place where two breadths ...
... eyes that stare at her from the wallpaper are the eyes of her husband and Jennie , as well as the rest of society who are watching her and observing whether or not she is im- proving . The confusing pattern of the wallpaper that the ...
... eyes . The swirls around the eyes make up the face of a trapped woman and the swirls beneath this face are her arms . Her hands grasp the bars as she struggles to be freed . The circular swirls I drew next serve two purposes : to make ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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