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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... meaning available . You will need to look for patterns of imagery , symbols , significant charac- ter interaction , plotlines , and crucial meaning statements , whether in the form of speeches by characters , key bits of dialogue , or ...
... meaning does he perceive in the spider's activity ? 6. At the end of his essay , Eiseley seems to retreat from some of the meaning he has seen in the spider's act and , presumably , those of the creatures he observed earlier . Why does ...
... Meanings and Formal Definition In essay writing , definition is most often used as a method for clarifying meaning for your readers . If , for example , you are writing an essay on obsessions , you would first want to define what is ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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