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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... symbols hawks , mustangs , cougars , sky- larks , and impalas . We sell no turkeys or Holsteins because they are not symbols of freedom , and we buy cars , above all , as engines of personal independence . If advertising animals seems ...
... symbols ? CONNECTION Compare and contrast Campbell's and Fromm's interpretations of the meaning and value of dreams ( see page 195 ) . IDEAS FOR WRITING 1. Taking one of the creation myths in this chapter , or another myth that you ...
... symbols are bisexual and can relate to the male or female genitals according to the context . Some symbols are universally disseminated and can be met with in all dream- ers belonging to a single linguistic or cultural group ; there are ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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