... to Thoreau's "contact"): "A metonym is a condensation of its context"; "metonymy conserves perception of the world of objects, conserves their quiddity, their particular precisions." In linguistic terms, metonymy is the trope of "contexture" and compression that theorist Roman Jakobson associated with realism and viewed as the antipode to the more abstract form of symbolic displacement characteristic of ... Nature, even with Thoreau's more material focus. (47) For readers concerned with the legacy of Emersonian metaphor in nature writing, however, this symbolic analogizing of nature's p...

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... inspiration. Through about 40 years of public service, he remained faithful to his vow of "eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." During Jefferson's two terms as president, the United States almost doubled in area with the purchase of the vast Louisiana Territory. America preserved its hard-won neutrality while France, led by Napoleon's armies, ... After one year's travel in Europe, Emerson began a career as a writer and lecturer. The sources of Emerson's thought have been found in many intellectual movements "Platonism, Neoplatonism, Puritanism, Renaissa...

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