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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... things that I've been able to use dreams for in my stories is to show things in a symbolic way that I wouldn't want to come right out and say directly . I've always used dreams the way you'd use mirrors to look at some- thing you couldn ...
... things , expressed things , made sense of the world . Lately , I've been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks . Like others , I have described it to people as " broken " or " fractured " English . But I wince when ...
... things — indeed , the road behind was strewn with the things we all had dropped ; and the white dust was settling down on them , so that already they looked no better than stones . My muscles were so weary that I could not even bear the ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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