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Emerson and the Poetics of Metonymy
I gave a talk today on “Emerson and the Poetics of Metonymy.” In a series called “Tea and Talk” at the Lit House at Washington College. I noted that ‘talk’ is meton… more →
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Emerson and the Poetics of Metonymy
waldo wrote 1 week ago: I gave a talk today on “Emerson and the Poetics of Metonymy.” In a series called “ … more →
Convulsiveness
Sean Meehan wrote 2 weeks ago: The keyword, the crypt-word, of Whitman’s Civil War prose, so far as I can see, is “conv … more →
Whitman's Metonymy Leads to 'You'
Sean Meehan wrote 4 weeks ago: In chapter 2 of Re-scripting Walt Whitman, Ed Folsom and Ken Price offer this insight regarding the … more →
Visual Tropes in "Barack the Barbarian"
mechanisticmoth wrote 1 month ago: Here’s a bit of a COMM 200 assignment I’m working on right now. Keep in mind that the a … more →
Dillard's Emerson
Sean Meehan wrote 1 month ago: Annie Dillard is best known as a nature writer. Her first book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) looks … more →
Emerson's convertible
Sean Meehan wrote 1 month ago: No, not exactly this kind of convertible–though given Emerson’s interest in “the h … more →
emerson's poetics of science, part 2
Sean Meehan wrote 2 months ago: One of the words from Nature I looked up and copied into the last posting is “hieroglyphic. … more →
Emerson's poetics of science
Sean Meehan wrote 2 months ago: Emerson uses in Nature various words and concepts from the science of his day, generally called natu … more →
the value of keeping a journal
Sean Meehan wrote 3 months ago: In his January 22, 1852 journal (excerpts to be given out at the first class Tuesday 9/1), Thoreau w … more →
Black or white?: No, ..., no.
Vivian McPhail wrote 3 months ago: The United States recently (within the past hour) made an egregious error resulting from two basic f … more →
pragmatic whitman
waldo wrote 4 months ago: Pragmatic Whitman, Stephen John Mack available at Whitman Archive 9: Whitman’s metonymy– … more →
A Hilarious Etymology
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awessels wrote 5 months ago: On the plane yesterday I was reading Moby Dick and came across the following line in the chapter … more →
Irony, Metaphor, Metonymy and Synecdoche
cto485 wrote 5 months ago: There’s a lot online already about figurative language, some of it of more use than others. However, … more →
Matthiessen on metonymy/emerson
waldo wrote 7 months ago: Matthiessen observes/asserts Emerson’s reliance on analogy/metonymy (quotes ‘use of life … more →
Tuesday Terminology: Metonymy
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John UpChurch wrote 7 months ago: One thing I love about teaching figures of speech is that people understand how to use them even if … more →
Maps and Figures
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apciv wrote 7 months ago: Here’s a map of Sioux reservations over time: Map of military campaigns of the Plains Wars: An … more →
Much mouth much tongue: Chinese metonymies and metaphors of verbal behaviour.
Callier Library wrote 7 months ago: This paper explores metonymical and metaphorical expressions of verbal behaviour in Chinese. While m … more →
birkerts on the kindle
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waldo wrote 8 months ago: Birkerts, a recent post on the Atlantic. Re-covering old ground: the page to screen transfer. But ev … more →
Metaphors of possession in the conceptualisation of language
Callier Library wrote 8 months ago: This article analyses the use of metaphors of possession in the conceptualisation of language. The a … more →
