1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... from Emerson's figuratively deracinated use of nature has extended into recent criticism that gives greater attention to Thoreau's unpublished work after Walden (1854). This is "the Thoreau of the journals and later natural history projects," as Rochelle Johnson identifies the turn to Thoreau's more ecocentric work of the 1850s, focusing her attention on the abstractions of Emerson's rhetorical nature ... ideational natural selection" is not a matter of language as the reflection of organicism, but of language as organism. (34) For Steven Meyer, Emerson's redefinition of thought and mind ...
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