There plant eyes : a personal and cultural history of blindness /
A probing, witty and deeply insightful history of blindness, in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience, that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sigh...
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Seeing & Not-Seeing
- Homer's Blind Bard
- The Tenacious Grip of the Blind Seer
- I Once Was Blind but Now I See
- Out, Vile Jelly!
- Telescopes, Microscopes, Spectacles, and Speculations
- Darkness Visible
- The Molyneux Man
- Performing Enlightenment
- Braille and His Invention
- The Tap Tapping of Blind Travelers
- Helen Keller In Vaudeville and In Love
- Sanctified by Affliction, or Not
- Portrait of the (Working) Writer as Blind
- The Secret Life of Art and Accessibility
- The Scylla and Charybdis of Stigma and Superpowers
- The Invisible Gorilla and Other Inattentions
- Constructing Blind Pride Out of Ancient and Evolutionary Blind Memes.