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The theme of blindness has been explored by many different cultures throughout history, with blind characters appearing in stories from ancient Greek mythology and Judeo-Christian religious texts. In the modern era, blindness has featured in numerous works of literature and poetry by authors such as William Shakespeare , William Blake , and H ...
In this innovative and important study, Heather Tilley examines the huge shifts that took place in the experience and conceptualisation of blindness during the nineteenth century, and demonstrates how new writing technologies for blind people had transformative effects on literary culture.
Through these personal narratives, the blind began for the first time to define the meaning of blindness for themselves. By one estimate, there were as many as eight thousand blind peo-ple in America in the 1830s. But reformers found that, in some sense, the blind were invisible, hidden from view.
There are historical examples of blind teachers, soldiers, religious and secular leaders, scientists, philosophers, mathematicians, historians, and a variety of other professionals. There are, as with the sighted, countless blind who lived out their lives in quiet obscurity.
3 paź 2016 · David Bolt, a widely known scholar (registered as blind in his teens), briefly sketches his own experience and starts The Metanarrative of Blindness with the definitions, which are crucial in Disability Studies.
‘A blind person is simply someone in whom the specialist function of sight is now devolved upon the whole body, and no longer specialized in a particular organ. Being a [whole body seer] is to be in one of the concentrated human conditions’ (1991: 164).
17 lip 2023 · In “The Country of the Blind,” Andrew Leland explores the history, the culture and the experiences of blind people.
