1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... not reach the extent of biocentric revisioning of the sort found in Aldo Leopold's "Odyssey" of atoms X and Y in Sand County Almanac (1970), a parable in his vision of biotic community. (39) But this shift to organic metonymy surely detranscendentalizes the implications of "organic metaphor" most thoroughly associated with Emersonian correspondence as theorized in Nature. Like Leopold, Emerson decenters the epic of ... beholder, as if it were bound hitherward with a message for me; but it comes no nearer, but circles and soars away, growing dimmer, disappointing me, till it is lost behi...
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