... from Emerson's anthropocentrism, it has neglected a rhetorical middle ground, the empirical figure of expression known as metonymy that plays a significant role in the natural history projects of both writers. I begin with Emerson's exploration of the nature of metonymy in his later work to locate Emerson's poetics of nature writing beyond Nature. On my reading, Emerson has his own more empirical ... destiny of the mind." Emerson's concept of transition links tropological with biological and geological change. In a late and unfinished natural history project, one clearly inspired by Tho...

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... around us and along with sensation; it provides the raw material for cognition. Our perceptions are not just a simple registration of sensory stimuli (Kosslyn, 2006). Almost immediately our cognitive processes begin to function, producing the brain's interpretation of the outside world. Incoming stimuli are analyzed and then stored information directs these active processes. The pattern of light that is hitting the ... memory and past experience that may be related to it (Sincero, 2013). There may be numerous faults in perception due to the brain creating unseemly hypotheses. For instan...

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