1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... problematic literalism that some ecocritics have brought into their reading of Thoreau's opposition to Emerson. The underlying problem concerns a misleading division drawn between the literal (understood as some physical, and thereby authentic, form of the natural world) and the literate or literary (understood as some expression of language or imagination). Lance Newman founds his reading of Thoreau ... of Mental Philosophy," where Faraday's "spherules of force" returns, Emerson revisits this understanding of a more physical and biological relation between matter and mind when he asser...
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