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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... imagination and spirit . JOURNAL Write about a dream you have had involving birds or animals . What did your dream suggest about how your imagination works and about your sense of kinship with or alienation from the animal kingdom ? Som ...
... imagination that can later be shaped into a story with an overall theme . You can begin as Patricia Hampl does in her first draft of her essay , " Memory and Imagination , " with what you think you remember : " When I was seven , my ...
... imagination , and the reasoning mind . Reading selections range from the personal to the academic and touch on topics such as memory , myths and fairy tales , obsessions , sexuality , gender roles , technology , popular culture , nature ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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