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Month: July 2021

1 Homer’s Blind Bard (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

1 Homer’s Blind Bard (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on July 28, 2021August 6, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

In the first chapter of There Plant Eyes, we travel back to the formative years of blindness in the Western cultural imagination: namely, the text of The Odyssey (traditionally ascribed to Homer), where so many ...

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‘The Odyssey’ BOOK VIII * Featuring the Blind Bard Demodocus

‘The Odyssey’ BOOK VIII * Featuring the Blind Bard Demodocus

Posted on July 27, 2021Blindness and Literature

In Book VII of The Odyssey we meet Demodocus, the blind bard who is in large part responsible for our association of Homer with blindness. The below text comes from Alexander Pope’s 1726 translation of ...

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Introduction: Seeing and Not-Seeing (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Introduction: Seeing and Not-Seeing (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on July 21, 2021August 6, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

The introduction to There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness presents Godin’s earliest moments with vision loss when she was ten and visited so many baffled eye doctors. But the autobiographical quickly ...

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“There Plant Eyes” * A Short Recitation from Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’

“There Plant Eyes” * A Short Recitation from Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’

Posted on July 19, 2021July 21, 2021Blindness and Literature

Many have asked, “Where does the title There Plant Eyes, come from?” Well, it’s a quote from Book III of John Milton’s 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost. We’re thrilled to share this There Plant Eyes ...

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Virtual Monster Book Tour for ‘There Plant Eyes’ (June 2021) * Links to Videos

Virtual Monster Book Tour for ‘There Plant Eyes’ (June 2021) * Links to Videos

Posted on July 12, 2021September 12, 2021News and Events

Thanks to those of you who joined me for one or more of my virtual book tour events in June! If you missed one or you just need to repeat or share one you’ve already ...

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