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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... obsessions , you would first want to define what is meant by obsession . Although you would first turn to a dictionary , an encyclopedia , or another reliable authority for a definition of this basic term , you would also need to use ...
... obsession with beauty or weight through developing a sense of self - esteem . Anne Lamott's “ Hunger ” shares her ... obsession and transformation . In her essay " The Good Girl , " Sharon Slayton analyses her obsession with being well ...
... obsession to be good . Actually , I think I have an advantage over a lot of people my age in that I covered a lot of ground when I was young . Driven by an obsession for goodness , I tested my limits and discovered what many people ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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