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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... human concerns , fairy tales , a particular class of myths that have been adapted for the entertainment of children , help to enlighten them on the darker side of human nature . In the next selection , " Fairy Tales and the Existential ...
... Human Family Although human beings are a part of nature , we single ourselves out and classify other animals and living beings as " nature , " while act- ing as if we were somehow separate from it . Then we ask , " How should we deal ...
... human being . We usually discriminate between humans and non- humans , thinking that we are more important than other species . But since we humans are made of non - human elements , to protect ourselves we have to pro- tect all of the non ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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