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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... understand yourself , your family , friends , college , and professional acquaintances — and the world in which you live . Dreams and the insights they bring from the inner self , with the universality of their patterns , imagery , and ...
... understand . Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says . Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent . Some say they understand none of it , as if she were speaking pure Chinese . But to me , my ...
... understand the language of the one was to understand the lan- guage of the others . And the work of anthropologists focused new attention on myths . They were collected and studied , and some few pioneers in this field , like J. J. ...
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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