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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... fear of disorder by naming lions and pythons , perhaps we can master our fears of men and live with the difficulties of race , class , and locality . Shepard suggests that as we lose natural diversity we will suffer a form of in- sanity ...
... fears . The fairy tale , by contrast , takes these existential anxieties and dilemmas very seriously and addresses itself directly to them : the need to be loved and the fear that one is thought worthless ; the love of life , and the fear ...
... fear and hatred for homosexuality is related inti- mately to “ the fear and hatred of what is perceived as being ' feminine ' in other men and in oneself " ( qtd . in Alter 27 ) . Thus , for some people , insecurity and mistrust of ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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