The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period

Larrissy, Edward

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“…Edward Larrissy, for example, demonstrates how the enigma of the blind was especially productive within the literature of the romantic period, working as symbols of lost vision in the dawning modernity. 17 In his study The melodramatic imagination, Peter Brooks argues that different literary genres have their corresponding sensory deprivations. 18 In comedy, deafness is recurrent, which could be seen in relation to the genre's preoccupation with problems of communication, misunderstandings and their consequences.…”

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“Let me tell you my life in a song” On Autobiography and Begging in Broadside Ballads of the Blind

Strand¹

2018

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What can street ballads tell us about the lives and realities of “common people”, of experiences “from below”? This article discusses the functional aesthetics and social context of one particular genre that has circulated in ephemeral song prints (skillingtryck) in Sweden: beggar verses of the blind. For centuries, such songs were sold in the streets and at market places as a means for the blind to earn a living, and a major part of them tell the life story, the sad fate, of their protagonists. Many prints declare the genre of autobiography on their very front page, quite literally selling the story of the protagonist’s life and addressing the audience’s compassion. How, then, do these narratives relate to real life? How is individuality and authenticity expressed within a genre that to a large extent relies upon conventions and formulas? As is argued, songs of this kind are a suggestive source material of vernacular literacy, as well as of social and personal history from below. Simultaneously, the discourse is marked by and shaped in a dialogue with the sighted world’s view of the blind.

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“Let me tell you my life in a song” On Autobiography and Begging in Broadside Ballads of the Blind

Strand¹

2018

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“…Como veremos adiante, ele faz a opção por uma construção de si como viajante a partir de uma filiação à razão e não por uma identificação romântica, que lhe era contemporânea, com uma compensatória visão interior do bardo 24 cego, porém visionário. 27 Embora a visão seja dominante, Jay observa que convivem neste regime de visibilidade diversos regimes escópicos alternativos, como o barroco, por exemplo. 28 Dessa forma, Holman teve uma gama razoavelmente importante de alternativas de transferência de sua fiabilidade do olhar para um outro elemento de sua identidade, por conta de certa ambiguidade em relação à perfectibilidade da visão como fonte de conhecimento.…”

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“Does every traveller see all that he describes?” James Holman e os Limites do Olhar Viajante.

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2016

Rev. hist.

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Olhar etnográfico, olhar pitoresco, olhar ilustrado, olhar evangelizador, olhar imperialista: o olhar é una metáfora frequente nas descrições e análises da literatura de viagem em suas mais diversas manifestações. Ver bem tem como consequência uma melhor compreensão do lugar visitado, o que pode converter o viajante em um especialista do lugar visitado, alguém que pode construir um texto de autoridade sobre determinado espaço, propor projetos políticos de regeneração, colonização, evangelização. O caso do viajante britânico cego, ex-marinheiro, James Holman (1786-1857), impõe limites a essa pretensão epistemológica que define o gênero. Autor de diversos relatos de suas viagens de circum-navegação pela Rússia, Europa Central, Brasil, China, Holman era consciente desses limites e por isso foi, além de viajante cego, um escritor cego. Este artigo trata desta consciência do processo de construção de sua fiabilidade dos seus limites.

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“…The theme of blindness in the novel has been the object of various interpretations which precede CDS, or apply different methods, for example the Lacanian reading of Peter Brooks in "What is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein)" (Brooks 1993), and Edward Larrissy's thematic study, The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period (Larrissy 2007). Larrissy reads the De Lacey episode in relation to blind fathers in Mary Shelley's other works, observing how the motif invokes and then subverts the traditional aesthetic morality of blindness: "[De Lacey's] blindness does not figure insight but its reverse" (Larrissy 2007, p. 194).…”

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“Its Own Concentred Recompense”: The Impact of Critical Disability Studies on Romanticism

Bradshaw

2019

Humanities

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The field of Critical Disability Studies (CDS) includes a diverse range of methodologies for the ethical re-evaluation of literary texts. CDS has a growing relationship with Romanticism, addressing themes such as sublime aesthetics and poetic symbolism. A major function of CDS is the re-reading of texts in terms authors’ lived experience of disability, and the social environments in which they produced. To that extent, CDS is a continuation of the process of re-historicizing Romantic literature. Complementary to the historicizing function, a range of more conceptual theories continues to impact on Romantic studies, opening up new possibilities for reading and scholarship. This article attempts to provide a critical overview of this ongoing work, and a sense of its diverse and at times contradictory nature. Concepts and theories for discussion include disability aesthetics, deformity, metaphor, and the Romantic fragment. The article includes a close analysis of Byron’s poem “Prometheus”, which connects revolutionary myth with ideas of pain and silence, demonstrating the fundamental contribution made by ideas of disability to literary Romanticism. CDS can help to disrupt the canonical and institutional nature of Romanticism, and to include dissident voices—not only the witness of the non-normatively embodied, but of difference in general.

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The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period

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“Let me tell you my life in a song” On Autobiography and Begging in Broadside Ballads of the Blind

“Let me tell you my life in a song” On Autobiography and Begging in Broadside Ballads of the Blind

“Does every traveller see all that he describes?” James Holman e os Limites do Olhar Viajante.

“Its Own Concentred Recompense”: The Impact of Critical Disability Studies on Romanticism

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