1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... . Thoreau's lesson in the primitive, derivative nature of analogy comes at a key moment in his journal writing when he begins to attend more expansively to the phenomena of the natural world, an empiricism that characterizes the Journal of the 1850s. Citing this and other journal entries from this period, H. Daniel Peck sees evidence not only for "how deeply analogical Thoreau's ... imagination was," but also for the "emerging imperative of his Journal's enterprise." Peck's phenomenological reading understands phenomenon in Thoreau's journal writing as a hybrid product, a relation of min...
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