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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... feel that it is inappropriate to create mean- ings to explain natural phenomena ? Do you agree with his reasoning here ? CONNECTION Compare Eiseley's revelations from his observations of birds with Cervantes's observations and insights ...
... feel and what not to feel . There is less and less unpleasantness that is unavoidable in life , for those with the means to avoid . But despite the enthusiastic claims of pharmaceutical science , depression cannot be wiped out so long ...
... feel intensely without risk , they administer homeopathic doses of shock . A pile of bodies is no longer shocking . You go to test your toughness and feel the thrill of momentarily los- ing it — in a comfortable seat , with popcorn ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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