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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... told it to dive . This duck went far down . It finally reached the bottom . Just as it touched the mud there it died . Then it came up again . Then the eagle and the other six saw a lit- tle dirt under its fingernail . When the eagle ...
... told her of the loom's words . " Burn the loom and take the ashes far away from the palace , " she told her daughter . Cam did as she was bidden and threw the ashes at the side of the road a great distance from the king's home . The ...
... told of leaving Frankfurt in 1934 at age twenty - five . She and her husband , an accountant who had lost his job when the Nazis came to power , escaped to Holland . There they worked with the underground Resistance , and Helen gave ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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