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Personal and cultural histories of blindness

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    11 Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    11 Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on May 29, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    In the previous endnotes, “The Tap, Tapping of Blind Travelers,” we spent time with the science of echolocation and the poetry and practicality of the tapping cane as well as a little of the history ...

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    Chapter 7: The Molyneux Man (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Chapter 7: The Molyneux Man (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on November 29, 2021December 1, 2021'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    The empirical impulse as philosophized and practiced by Galileo, Bacon, and Hooke (Chapter 5), and as poeticized by Milton (Chapter 6), came into fruition by the end of the seventeenth century culminating, perhaps, in the ...

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    Chapter 6 Darkness Visible (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Chapter 6 Darkness Visible (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on October 3, 2021'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    John Milton is in some ways the heart of There Plant Eyes. After all, the title comes from a passage in his 1667 Paradise Lost–read the short passage from the famous invocation to the Muse ...

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    Chapter 1: “Homer’s Blind Bard” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Chapter 1: “Homer’s Blind Bard” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on July 28, 2021August 21, 2021'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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    Introduction: Seeing and Not-Seeing (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

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

    Posted on July 21, 2021July 21, 2021'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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