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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... Nature is extraordinary with the power to nourish and to destroy . Despite our efforts to control nature for our own benefit , it continues to act upon us , to have the last word , for we are inextricably a part of it . Yet how often do ...
... nature , and doing harm to nature only harms us . It is not just the poor and oppressed who are victims of environ- mental damage . The affluent are just as much victims of pollution and the exploitation of resources . We must look at ...
... nature , and prevents us from being disruptive and cruel . We have created a system that we cannot control . This ... nature and should be able to live in harmony with nature . Nature can be cruel and disruptive and therefore , at times ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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