Dreams and Inward Journeys

by Ford, Marjorie; Ford, Jon

• ISBN13: 9780321123947
• ISBN10: 0321123948
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: LONGMAN

Summary

This 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.

Table of Contents

Denotes new selections

To the Student

To The Instructor

Discovering Ourselves in Writing and Reading

A Process View of Writing and Reading

Thematic Introduction to Reading and Writing

Readings

"Of Modern Poetry" (poem)

"The Symbolic Language of Dreams" (essay)

"Teaching Two Kinds of Thinking by Teaching Writing" (essay)

"Professions for Women" (essay)

"Mother Tongue" (essay)

"Learning to Read and Write" (essay)

"Don't Look Back" (essay)

"The No-Book Report: Skim It and Weep" (essay)

Student Writing

"Drive Becarefully" (essay)

"Response to Steven Holtzman's Don't Look Back."

Visions of Nature

Observing Nature and Writing Descriptions

Thematic Introduction

"Empulmada" (poem)

"Dreaming Elands" (essay)

"Learning to See" (essay)

"Inside the Volcano" (essay)

"The Khumbu Icefall" (essay)

"Walking" (essay)

"The Judgment of the Birds" (essay)

Student Writing

"Strawberry Creek: A Search for Origins" (essay)

"Dian Fossey and Me" (essay)

Topics for Research and Writing

Memories

Narration, Memory, and Self-awareness

Thematic Introduction

Readings

"For a New Citizen of These United States" (poem)

"The Way to Rainy Mountain" (essay)

"Memory and Imagination" (essay)

"The Angel of the Candy Counter" (essay)

"Silent Dancing" (essay)

"Writing Autobiography" (essay)

"Muller Bros. Moving & Storage" (essay)

Student Writing

"Enter Dragon" (essay)

"The Best Seat in the House" (essay)

Topics for Research and Writing

Dreams, Myths, and Fairy Tales

Comparing and Contrasting: Strategies for Thinking and Writing

Thematic Introduction

Readings

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

"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World: A Tale for Children" (fiction)

"The Forgotten Language" (essay)

"The Four Functions of Mythology" (essay)

Portfolio of Creation Myths

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

"The Pelasgian Creation Myth" (Ancient Greek; retold by Robert Graves)

"The Chameleon Finds" (Yao-Bantu, African)

"Yauelmani Yokut Creation" (Native American)

"Spider Woman Creates the Humans" (Hopi, Native American)

"The Beginning of the World" (Japanese)

"Fairy Tales and the Existential Predicament" (essay)

Four Versions of Cinderella

The Brothers Grimm, "Aschenputtel" (fairy tale)

"The Algonquin Cinderella" (adapted by Idries Shah) (fairy tale)

"Tam and Cam: A Vietnamese Cinderella Story" (fairy tale)

"The Politically Correct Cinderella" (satire)

Student Writing

"Two Myths" (essay)

"Cinderella: Politically Incorrect?" (essay)

Topics for Research and Writing

Obsessions and Transformation

Definition: Word Boundaries of the Self

Thematic Introduction

Readings

"Fog-Horn" (poem)

"What Is a Healing Dream?" (essay)

"Remembering" (essay)

"Depre

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