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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... language in daily life . " Dis- cuss several striking examples of creative uses of language that you have noticed recently in your everyday life or in conversations with friends . I am not a scholar of English or literature . I cannot ...
... language , symbolic language . The myths of the Babylonians , Indians , Egyptians , Hebrews , Greeks are writ- ten in the same language as those of the Ashantis or the Trukese . The dreams of someone living today in New York or in Paris ...
... language . Thus we lose sight of the many - sidedness of symbolic language and try to force it into the Procrustean bed of one , and only one , kind of meaning . Another limitation is that interpretation of dreams is still considered ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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