1. Emerson, Thoreau, and the Nature of Metonymy
Though I share Phillips's belief that "we need to cure ecocriticism of its fundamentalist fixation on literal representation," the larger theory and critique of ecocriticism of the sort he pursues is beyond my scope here. (8) Rather, in paying greater attention to the sort of ecological literacy or, less anachronistically, the natural history writing and thinking that emerge in Emerson as it does in Thoreau, I will be arguing that both writers complicate the assumption that the literal and literary senses of things can be separated irreducibly in this way. ...
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