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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... fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form : that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is ... fairy tale , by contrast , confronts the child squarely with the basic human predicaments . For example , many fairy ...
... fairy tale offers solutions in ways that the child can grasp on his level of un- derstanding . For example , fairy tales pose the dilemma of wishing to live eter- nally by occasionally concluding : " If they have not died , they are ...
... fairy tales ? Do you agree ? 2. According to Bettelheim , how do fairy tales help children to control de- structive unconscious impulses ? How does the polarization of good and evil in fairy tales help children ? 3. Why does Bettelheim ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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