1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... Thoreau for long," Worster concludes, "for they were aspiring branches that had no roots to support them. They were ideas that were not soiled enough." (4) Worster's figure of difference, complete with Thoreauvian pun--the spiritual airiness of Emerson's imagination can't compare to the fecal matter of Thoreau's ecological ideas--maps a path in the ecocritical reading of Thoreau by way of ... the passage. Michael West does just that in Transcendental Wordplay (2000), locating the most direct source for Thoreau and his linguistic leavings in Hungarian linguist Charles Kraitsir and his 1852...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate