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Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Rhetoric and Reader for Writers, 5/E
Marjorie Ford, Stanford University
Jon Ford, De Anza College

ISBN-10: 0321123948
ISBN-13: 9780321123947

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 624 pp
Published: 05/27/2003

This item has been replaced by Dreams and Inward Journeys, 7/E.

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.

Notable authors like Maya Angelou, Anne Lamott, Gabriel García Marquez, Maxine Hong Kingston, E.M. Forster, Alice Walker, Sigmund Freud, and John Updike make this an impressive, as well as unique, collection of readings.

A vast array of literary genres is presented, including essays, poems, and stories.

Chapters open with both a rhetorical and thematic introduction; for example, Chapter 4 compares traditional and modern myths and offers writing guidelines for developing a comparison/contrast essay.

Two to three student essays appear at the end of each chapter to begin an exploration of the chapter theme and to model the rhetorical strategy introduced at the beginning of the chapter.

Every selection concludes with “Connection” questions that interrelate the piece with other readings and themes in the text.

“Journal Prompts” encourage informal and expressive writing as a prelude to academic assignments and research projects.

Thirty-six new and noteworthy readings include Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women,” David Sedaris, “I Like Guys,” and Erich Fromm, “Symbolic Language.”

A New Chapter 2, “Visions of Nature,” features pieces by Jon Krakauer, Farley Mowat, Donovan Webster, and Loren Eisley.

All new Chapter 9, “Visions of Spirituality,” highlights the work of Thomas Moore, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Annie Dillard.

Formerly covered in two separate chapters, reading and writing are now combined in Chapter 1, “Discovering Ourselves in Writing and Reading,” to draw a clearer relationship between these interrelated processes.

Each reading selection is accompanied by two topic-related Web site URL's that help students continue researching on that topic.

Provocative and highly symbolic art connected to the theme opens each chapter.

* denotes new selections.

To the Student.

To The Instructor.

1. Discovering Ourselves in Writing and Reading.

A Process View of Writing and Reading.

Thematic Introduction to Reading and Writing.

Readings.

* Wallace Stevens, “Of Modern Poetry” (poem).

Stephen King, “The Symbolic Language of Dreams” (essay).

Peter Elbow, “Teaching Two Kinds of Thinking by Teaching Writing” (essay).

* Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women” (essay).

Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” (essay).

* Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write” (essay).

Steven Holtzman, “ Don't Look Back” (essay).

* Linton Weeks, “The No-Book Report: Skim It and Weep” (essay).

Student Writing.

Joyce Chang, “Drive Becarefully” (essay).

* Molly Thomas, “Response to Steven Holtzman's Don't Look Back.”

2. Visions of Nature.

Observing Nature and Writing Descriptions.

Thematic Introduction.

* Lorna Dee Cervantes, “Empulmada” (poem).

* Peter Steinhart, “Dreaming Elands” (essay).

* Farley Mowat, “Learning to See” (essay).

* Donovan Webster, “Inside the Volcano” (essay).

* Jon Krakauer, “The Khumbu Icefall” (essay).

Linda Hogan, “Walking” (essay).

* Loren Eiseley, “ The Judgment of the Birds” (essay).

Student Writing.

* David Kerr, “Strawberry Creek: A Search for Origins” (essay).

* Lindsey Munro, “Dian Fossey and Me” (essay).

Topics for Research and Writing.

3. Memories.

Narration, Memory, and Self-awareness.

Thematic Introduction.

Readings.

Li-Young Lee, “For a New Citizen of These United States” (poem).

* N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain” (essay).

* Patricia Hampl, “Memory and Imagination” (essay).

Maya Angelou, “The Angel of the Candy Counter” (essay).

Judith Ortiz Cofer, “Silent Dancing” (essay).

bell hooks, “Writing Autobiography” (essay).

Stephen Jay Gould, “Muller Bros. Moving & Storage” (essay).

Student Writing.

Tin Le, “Enter Dragon” (essay).

* Melissa Burns, “The Best Seat in the House” (essay).

Topics for Research and Writing.

4. Dreams, Myths, and Fairy Tales.

Comparing and Contrasting: Strategies for Thinking and Writing.

Thematic Introduction.

Readings.

Nikki Giovanni, “ego-tripping (there may be a reason why)” (poem).

Gabriel García Márquez, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World: A Tale for Children” (fiction).

* Erich Fromm, “The Forgotten Language” (essay).

Joseph Campbell, “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).

Bruno Bettelheim, “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).

James Finn Garner, “The Politically Correct Cinderella” (satire).

Student Writing.

Joshua Groban, “Two Myths” (essay).

Liz Scheps, “Cinderella: Politically Incorrect?” (essay).

Topics for Research and Writing.

5. Obsessions and Transformation.

Definition: Word Boundaries of the Self.

Thematic Introduction.

Readings.

W. S. Merwin, “Fog-Horn” (poem).

* Marc Ian Barasch, “What Is a Healing Dream?” (essay).

* Rachel Naomi Remen, “Remembering” (essay).

* Andrew Solomon, “Depression” (essay).

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (fiction).

Anne Lamott, “Hunger” (essay).

* E. M. Forster, “The Other Side of the Hedge” (fiction).

Student Writing.

Sharon Slayton, “The Good Girl” (essay).

* Tiffany N. Castillo, “Body and Mind: Examining the Psychological Effects of Exercise” (essay).

Topics for Research and Writing.

6. Journeys in Sexuality and Gender.

Causality and the Inward Journey.

Thematic Introduction.

Readings.

Chitra Divakaruni, “Nargis' Toilette” (poem).

Maxine Hong Kingston, “No Name Woman” (essay).

Sigmund Freud, “Erotic Wishes and Dreams” (essay).

Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” (fiction).

Gloria Naylor, “The Two” (fiction).

* David Sedaris, “I Like Guys” (essay).

* Cooper Thompson, “A New Vision of Masculinity” (essay).

Student Writing.

Rosa Contreras, “On Not Being a Girl” (essay).

Julie Bordner Apodaca, “Gay Marriage: Why the Resistance?” (essay).

Topics for Research and Writing.

7. The Double/The Other.

Argument and Dialogue.

Thematic Introduction.

Readings.

Judith Ortiz Cofer, “The Other” (poem).

John Updike, “Updike and I” (essay).

* Robert Johnson, “Owning Your Own Shadow” (essay).

Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case” from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (fiction).

Shelby Steele, “Being Black and Feeling Blue” (essay).

* Susan Griffin, “Ideologies of Madness” (essay).

Fran Peavey (with Myrna Levy and Charles Varon), “Us and Them” (essay).

Student Writing.

Susan Voyticky, “Mixed-Up” (essay).

Jill Ho, “Affirmative Action: Perspectives from a Model Minority” (researched argument).

Topics for Research and Writing.

8. Society's Dreams.

Research Writing.

Thematic Introduction.

Readings.

Louise Erdrich, “Dear John Wayne” (poem).

Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson, “Pictures in Our Heads” (essay).

* Eric Schlosser, “McTeachers and Coke Dudes” (essay).

* Kalle Lasn, “The Ecology of Mind” (essay).

* Helena Norberg-Hodge, “The Pressure to Modernize and Globalize” (essay).

Sissela Bok, “Aggression: The Impact of Media Violence” (essay).

* Todd Gitlin, “Three Formulas” (essay).

Student Writing.

Jason Glickman “Technology and the Future of the American Wilderness” (researched argument).

Topics for Research and Writing.

9. Visions of Spirituality.

Creativity, Problem Solving, and Synthesis.

Thematic Introduction.

Readings.

* Emily Dickinson, #501: “This World is not Conclusion” (poem).

Annie Dillard, “A Field of Silence” (essay).

Terry Tempest Williams, “Santa Teresa” (essay).

* Thomas Moore, “Neither Here Nor There” (essay).

* Jane Goodall, “In the Forests of Gombe” (essay).

Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream” (essay).

Thich Nhat Hanh, “Love in Action” (essay).

Student Writing.

* Josh Spires, “Knowing Spirituality” (essay).

* Elizabeth Matchett, “The Gift” (essay).

Topics for Research and Writing.

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