Emily Dickinson and Her Metonymical Way of Knowing Nature

作     者：Xiaohui Liu 

作者机构：English DepartmentSchool of Languages and Communication StudiesBeijing Jiaotong University3 ShangyuancunXizhimenwaiHaidian DistrictBeijing 100044China 

出 版 物：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》 (复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第13卷第4期

页      面：573-590页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

基　　金：The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2020JBWB003) 

主　　题：Emily Dickinson Poetry Metonymy Cognitive operation Epistemological ideas 

摘      要：This paper is aimed at dealing with the cognitive and epistemological significance in Emily Dickinson s use of metonymy in her poems of nature which earlier critics termed enigmatic or *** on textual analysis,the author of this paper attempts to illustrate that,as opposed to Emerson s ideal of transcendence,Dickinson takes worldly contingency as necessary elements of her poetry and proceeds metonymically rather than metaphorically in presenting her everyday encounter with nature and her meditative observation of *** author also holds that Dickinson s concern about contiguity and contingency,her preference for the metonymical way of knowing,sets her apart from the Emersonian visionary tradition and implicates her perspectival stand with regard to man s potential to know nature with language as the medium.