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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... seemed . Appearance deceived : here was the sun acting totally out of character , hurling this woman into sneezes , a woman so mild that she was named , so it seemed , for a bland object on a relish tray . I was given a red book , the ...
... seemed nothing left to feed it . I was not strong enough to stop breathing . I knew then that I could never kill this vine of depression , and so all I wanted was for it to let me die . But it had taken from me the energy I would have ...
... seemed not strong enough to contain the raging energies of life . The powers of Hyde seemed to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyll . And certainly the hate that now divided them was equal on each side . With Jekyll , it was a thing ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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