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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... woman in a bedroom with an inkpot . In other words , now that she had rid her- self of falsehood , that young woman had only to be herself . Ah , but what is " herself " ? I mean , what is a woman ? I assure you , I do not know . I do ...
... woman was very happy and rushed into the house and embraced her . She tore apart the skin of the fruit and threw it away . Tam lived happily with the old woman and helped her with the house- work every day . She also made cakes and ...
... Woman Maxine Hong Kingston ( b . 1940 ) is from Stockton , California , where she grew up listening to the stories her mother would tell about Chinese village life . Hong Kingston ... Woman 321 Maxine Hong Kingston, "No Name Woman” (essay)
Contents
Discovering Ourselves | 1 |
Obsessions and Transformation | 5 |
Readings | 13 |
Copyright | |
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