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Personal and cultural histories of blindness

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    • 12 Sanctified by Affliction, or Not (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes) June 22, 2022
    • 11 Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes) May 29, 2022
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    Chapter 3: “I Once Was Blind, but Now I See” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Chapter 3: “I Once Was Blind, but Now I See” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on August 28, 2021August 29, 2021'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    In  Chapter 3, Godin explores the Greek-inflected Christian origins of the saintly blind and blindness as corrective  tropes that expand and subtly change ideas of compensation and punishment as discussed in Chapters 1 and 2. ...

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    Chapter 2: “The Tenacious Grip of the Blind Seer” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Chapter 2: “The Tenacious Grip of the Blind Seer” (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

    Posted on August 10, 2021August 21, 2021'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

    Tiresias the blind prophet who makes an appearance on the stage and page of so many Greek tragedies and epics (for example, Oedipus, Antigone, The Odyssey) is perhaps the oldest and most famous of the ...

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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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    ‘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, 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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    “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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    Helen Keller in Vaudeville, a Short Reading from ‘There Plant Eyes’

    Helen Keller in Vaudeville, a Short Reading from ‘There Plant Eyes’

    Posted on June 27, 2021July 21, 2021Blindness and Literature

    Helen Keller was born on this day-, June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia Alabama, so I thought I’d celebrate her birthday with a brief passage and reading from “Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love,” which ...

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