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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... remember as a kid , having a lot of falling dreams but this is the only flying dream that I can remember in detail . I don't have a lot of repetitive dreams but I do have an anxiety dream : I'm working very hard in a little hot room ...
... remember that little story about my first piano lesson . In fact , it isn't a story , just a moment , the beginning of what could perhaps be- come a story . For the memoirist , more than for the fiction writer , the story seems already ...
... remember them . Most of them we simply forget , so completely that we do not even remember having lived in this other world . Some we faintly remember at the moment of waking , and the next second they are beyond recall . A few we do ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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