1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
... . Emerson's rescaling of man to a grasshopper may 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 ... ...
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