Chapter 6 Darkness Visible (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)
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)
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 ...
Introduction: Seeing and Not-Seeing (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)
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 ...