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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... girl said . " It's really an awfully simple operation , Jig , " the man said . " It's not really an operation at all . ” The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on . “ I know you wouldn't mind it , Jig . It's really not ...
... girl or a boy . AR s I grew into adolescence , I experienced constant conflict between being a girl and having what have been traditionally considered “ masculine ” quali- ties . At the same time that I wanted to be contemplative and ...
... girl remained disconsolate until , days later , a telegram arrived verifying that her father was still alive . It appears that the girl had con- structed a complete fiction based on a simple external fact ( a broken window ) , a ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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