There plant eyes : a personal and cultural history of blindness
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- ISBN: 9781524748715
- ISBN: 1524748714
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Physical Description:
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xviii, 331 pages ; 22 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-316) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Blind History Blindness Social aspects Blind in literature Blind in art |
Genre: | History. |
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