Summary of Sight Unseen by Georgina Kleege

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Publication Details of "Sight Unseen"

  • The book "Sight Unseen" is authored by Georgina Kleege.

  • It is published by Yale University Press in New Haven & London.

  • The copyright is held by Georgina Kleege, © 1999. All rights reserved.

  • ISBN: 0-300-07680-0 (alk. paper).

  • Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is provided: Kleege, Georgina, 1956- Sight unseen / Georgina Kleege.

  • Includes bibliographical references.

  • LC classification: HV1593.K528 1998

  • Dewey Decimal: 362.4'i— dc2i

  • LC Number: 98-38773 CIP

  • A catalogue record is available from the British Library.

  • The paper meets specific guidelines for permanence and durability.

  • The book's number in the print run sequence: 10 987654321

Book Dedication

  • The book is dedicated in loving memory to the author's parents, Laura Gene McIntosh Kleege and James H. Kleege.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments: ix

  • Introduction: 1

Part I: Blindness and Culture

  • Call It Blindness: 9

  • Blind Nightmares: 43

  • In Oedipus' Shadow: 67

Part II: Blind Phenomenology

  • The Mind's Eye: 93

  • Here's Looking at You: 122

  • A Portrait of the Artist by His Blind Daughter: 144

Part III: Blind Reading: Voice, Texture, Identity

  • Voices in My Head: 167

  • Up Close, In Touch: 192

  • Notes: 229

  • Bibliography: 231

Acknowledgments

  • Portions of the book appeared in Raritan Review, Southwest Review, and Yale Review.

  • The author expresses gratitude to the editors of these magazines: Richard Poirier, Willard Spiegelman, and J. D. McClatchy.

  • Special acknowledgments are given to Nicholas Howe, the author's husband, for his support, reading, proofreading, and insights into the visual world.

  • John Hollander is thanked for practical advice and intellectual encouragement.

  • Arien Mack is acknowledged for providing education in visual perception.

  • Others thanked for reading portions of the book and offering suggestions include Bernard Block, Brenda Brueggemann, Daniel C. Dennett, Audrey Jaffe, Andrea Lunsford, Linda Mizejewski, Melanie Rae Thon, and Susan S. Williams.

  • The author is grateful to her editors Jonathan Brent and Heidi Downey, and her agent Mildred Marmur.

  • Appreciation is expressed to readers for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped and Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic including Jeff Bergland, Julie Carr, Ellen Damsky, Katie Dyer, Shannon Floyd, Rosemary Hathaway, Beth Ina, Stacy Klein, Karen Kovacik, Cray Little, Maureen Novak, Irmgard Schopen, and Rick Vartorella.