... eyes: "Mem. see in Second Series Essays that the transit is fairly described and also that the value of a trope is the hint it affords of trope or transmigration to the mind of the reader himself." Emerson uses as a familiar metonym for an author's work the title Essays: Second Series; but the reflexive reference to "the mind of the reader" suggests larger implications for metonymy as ... for Emerson is a process of nature's writing, an ongoing form of natural biography anticipating the organic agency of the writer or scholar, then metonymy is life's biocentric figure. Emerson's rescali...

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