Dreams and Inward Journeys : A Rhetoric and Reader for Writers

by Ford, Marjorie; Ford, Jon

ISBN13:

9780321076243

ISBN10:

0321076249

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Pub. Date:

7/1/2000

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Pearson College Div

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A truly unique book in its field, Dreams and Inward Journeys,4/e explores the relationships between self-understanding, reading and writing. Chapters include reflective essays, poems, memory, gender roles, the anti-self, social definitions of self, and the visionary process itself. The emphasis on dreams and the imagination has been proven to excite and motivate students.

Contents by Strategies and Modes

xxi

To the Student

xxix

To the Instructor

xxxii

Discovering Ourselves in Writing

(65)

The Writing Process and Self Discovery

(8)

Thematic Introduction

(3)

Readings

``Poem for the Creative Writing Class, Spring 1982'' (poem)

(2)

Merle Woo

``A Letter to a Young Poet'' (essay)

(3)

Rainer Maria Rilke

``A Way of Writing'' (essay)

(3)

William Stafford

``Writing Matters'' (essay)

(10)

Julia Alvarez

``Teaching Two Kinds of Thinking by Teaching Writing'' (essay)

(7)

Peter Elbow

``The Symbolic Language of Dreams'' (essay)

(7)

Stephen King

``Mother Tongue'' (essay)

(5)

Amy Tan

``The Tales They Tell in Cyber-space'' (essay)

(7)

Jon Katz

``This Place in the Ways'' (poem)

(2)

Muriel Rukeyser

Student Writing

``Drive Becarefully'' (personal essay)

(3)

Joyce Chang

``Whirling Through: My Writing Process as a Tornado Within'' (process essay)

(2)

Sheila Chanani

Topics for Research and Writing

(3)

Discovering Ourselves in Reading

(45)

Responding to Reading Through Writing

(4)

Thematic Introduction

(2)

Readings

``The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm'' (poem)

(2)

Wallace Stevens

``The Library Card'' (essay)

(5)

Richard Wright

``Ruined by Reading: Books into The Movies'' (essay)

(4)

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

``States of Reading'' (essay)

(8)

Sven Birkerts

``Don't Look Back'' (essay)

(5)

Steven Holtzman

``The Book of Sand'' (story)

(4)

Jorge Luis Borges

``The Secret'' (poem)

100

(3)

Denise Levertov

Student Writing

``Hsao-suen: A Chinese Virtue'' (essay)

103

(2)

Caitlin Liu

``The Sandstorm of Time and Knowledge'' (essay)

105

(3)

Lissy Goralnik

Topics for Research and Writing

108

(3)

Memories from Childhood

111

(59)

Narration, Memory, and Self-Awareness

111

(5)

Thematic Introduction

116

(2)

Readings

``Poem to My Grandmother on Her Death'' (poem)

118

(2)

Michele Murray

``Tio Ramon'' (essay)

120

(8)

Isabel Allende

``The Angel of the Candy Counter'' (essay)

128

(6)

Maya Angelou

``Silent Dancing'' (essay)

134

(7)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

``Writing Autobiography'' (essay)

141

(5)

bell hooks

``The Dream of Authority'' (essay)

146

(6)

Jane Tompkins

``Remembering'' (essay)

152

(3)

Naomi Remen

``Muller Bros. Moving and Storage'' (essay)

155

(6)

Stephen Jay Gould

``For A New Citizen of These United States'' (poem)

161

(2)

Li-Young Lee

``Namesake'' (essay)

163

(3)

Corinne Okada

``Enter Dragon'' (essay)

166

(2)

Tin Le

Student Writing

Topics for Research and Writing

168

(2)

Dreams, Myths, and Fairy Tales

170

(61)

Comparing and Contrasting: Strategies for Thinking and Writing

170

(4)

Thematic Introduction

174

(3)

Readings

``ego-tripping (there may be a reason why)'' (poem)

177

(2)

Nikki Giovanni

``The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World'' (story)

179

(5)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

``The Four Functions of Mythology'' (essay)

184

(5)

Joseph Campbell

``The Importance of Dreams'' (essay)

189

(9)

Carl Jung

Portfolio of Creation Myths

198

(5)

Genesis 2:4--23 (Old Testament of the Hebrew Bible)

198

(1)

``The Chameleon Finds'' (Yao-Bantu, African)

199

(1)

``Yauelmani Yakut Creation Myth'' (Native American)

200

(1)

``Spider Woman Creates the Humans'' (Hopi, Native American)

201

(2)

``Fairy Tales and the Existential Predicament'' (essay)

203

(5)

Bruno Bettelheim

Four Versions of Cinderella The Brothers Grimm, ``Aschenputtel'' (fairytale)

208

(6)

``The Algonquin Cinderella'' (folktale)

214

(2)

Idries Shah

``The Politically Correct Cinderella'' (modern satire)

216

(3)

James Finn Garner

``Cinderella'' (poem)

219

(2)

Olga Broumas

Student Writing

``Two Myths'' (essay)

221

(3)

Joshua Groban

``Cinderella: Politically Incorrect?'' (essay)

224

(4)

Liz Scheps

Topics for Research and Writing

228

(3)

Obsessions and Transformation

231

(66)

Definition: Word Boundaries of the Self

231

(3)

Thematic Introduction

234

(3)

Readings

``Fog-Horn'' (poem)

237

(1)

W. S. Merwin

``Nightmares: Terrors of the Night'' (essay)

238

(10)

Franklin Galvin

Ernest Hartmann

``The Roots of Depression'' (essay)

248

(5)

William Styron

``The Tell-Tale Heart'' (story)

253

(5)

Edgar Allan Poe

``The Yellow Wallpaper'' (story)

258

(14)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

``Beauty: When The Other Dancer Is the Self'' (essay)

272

(7)

Alice Walker

``Hunger'' (essay)

279

(6)

Anne Lamott

``In a Dark Time'' (poem)

285

(2)

Theodore Roethke

Student Writing

``I'll Tell It You Called'' (story)

287

(3)

Adine Kernberg

``The Good Girl'' (essay)

290

(4)

Sharon Slayton

Topics for Research and Writing

294

(3)

Journeys in Sexuality and Gender

297

(72)

Causality and the Inward Journey

297

(3)

Thematic Introduction

300

(2)

Readings

``To a Stranger'' (poem)

302

(2)

Walt Whitman

Two Versions of Pygmalion

304

(1)

``Pygmalion'' (myth)

304

(1)

Thomas Bulfinch

``Pygmalion'' (story)

305

(3)

John Updike

``Erotic Wishes and Dreams'' (essay)

308

(4)

Sigmund Freud

``No Name Woman'' (essay)

312

(9)

Maxine Hong Kingston

``Being a Boy'' (essay)

321

(4)

Julius Lester

``Hills Like White Elephants'' (story)

325

(5)

Ernest Hemingway

``The Two'' (story)

330

(8)

Gloria Naylor

``Swinging'' (essay)

338

(6)

Diane Wood Middlebrook

``The Age of the Female Icon'' (essay)

344

(4)

Holly Brubach

``Virtual Sex'' (essay)

348

(8)

Sherry Turkle

``Nargis' Toilette'' (poem)

356

(3)

Chitra Divakaruni

Student Writing

``On Not Being a Girl'' (essay)

359

(3)

Rosa Contreras

``Gay Marriage: Why the Resistance?'' (researched argument)

362

(4)

Julie Bordner Apodaca

Topics for Research and Writing

366

(3)

The Double/The Other

369

(68)

Argument and Dialogue

369

(5)

Thematic Introduction

374

(3)

Readings

``The Other'' (poem)

377

(1)

Judith Ortiz Cofer

``Updike and I'' (essay/fantasy)

378

(2)

John Updike

``The Realization of the Shadow in Dreams'' (essay)

380

(5)

Marie-Louise von Franz

``A Chapter on Dreams'' (essay)

385

(4)

Robert Louis Stevenson

``Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case'' from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (story)

389

(12)

Robert Louis Stevenson

``A Different Mirror'' (essay)

401

(9)

Ronald Takaki

``Being Black and Feeling Blue'' (essay)

410

(11)

Shelby Steele

``Us and Them'' (essay)

421

(6)

Fran Peavey

Myrna Levy

Charles Varon

``The Dream'' (poem)

427

(2)

Pablo Neruda

Student Writing

``Mixed-Up'' (essay)

429

(2)

Susan Voyticky

``Affirmative Action: Perspectives from a Model Minority'' (researched argument)

431

(3)

Jill Ho

Topics for Research and Writing

434

(3)

Society's Dreams

437

(73)

Research Writing

437

(5)

Thematic Introduction

442

(3)

Readings

``Middle Class Poem'' (poem)

445

(2)

Stephen Dunn

``Pictures in Our Heads'' (essay)

447

(6)

Anthony Pratkanis

Elliot Aronson

``Winston Was Dreaming'' from 1984 (fiction)

453

(6)

George Orwell

``I Have a Dream'' (essay)

459

(4)

Martin Luther King Jr.

``Aggression: The Impact of Media Violence'' (essay)

463

(6)

Sissela Bok

``Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck'' (essay)

469

(8)

Jessica Hagedorn

``Little Girls in Pretty Boxes'' (essay)

477

(9)

Joan Ryan

``The City of Robots'' (essay)

486

(7)

Umberto Eco

``Getting Close to the Machine'' (essay)

493

(5)

Ellen Ullman

``Dear John Wayne'' (poem)

498

(2)

Louise Erdrich

Student Writing

``Technology and the Future of the American Wilderness'' (researched argument)

500

(7)

Jason Glickman

Topics for Research and Writing

507

(3)

Visions of Nature

510

(58)

Creativity, Problem Solving, and Synthesis

510

(4)

Thematic Introduction

514

(3)

Readings

``The Panther'' (poem)

517

(1)

Rainer Maria Rilke

``The Etiquette of Freedom'' (essay)

518

(3)

Gary Snyder

``The Great Vision'' (essay)

521

(7)

Black Elk

John G. Neihardt

``Walking'' (essay)

528

(3)

Linda Hogan

``A Field of Silence'' (essay)

531

(4)

Annie Dillard

``The Other Side of the Hedge'' (story)

535

(6)

E. M. Forster

``The Clan of One-Breasted Women'' (essay)

541

(6)

Terry Tempest Williams

``Love in Action'' (essay)

547

(12)

Thich Nhat Hanh

``Offering'' (Traditional; Zuni People) (poem)

559

(2)

Student Writing

``Jerusalem's Spring'' (poem)

561

(1)

Michael Noah Ford

``Visualizing Our Environment: Communication of Environmental Issues Through Visual Arts'' (researched argument)

562

(6)

Sheila Walsh

Topics for Research and Writing

568

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