The World I Live In
Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work -- one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, while making the provocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language. Standing in the line of Emerson and Thoreau, The World I Live In is a profoundly suggestive exercise in self-invention, and a true, rediscovered classic of American literature. This new edition of The World I Live In also includes Helen Keller's early essay "Optimism," as well as her first published work, "My Story," written when she was twelve.
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The World I Live In
Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work -- one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, while making the provocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language. Standing in the line of Emerson and Thoreau, The World I Live In is a profoundly suggestive exercise in self-invention, and a true, rediscovered classic of American literature. This new edition of The World I Live In also includes Helen Keller's early essay "Optimism," as well as her first published work, "My Story," written when she was twelve.
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The World I Live In

The World I Live In

by Helen Keller
The World I Live In

The World I Live In

by Helen Keller

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Out of print for nearly a century, The World I Live In is Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work -- one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, while making the provocative argument that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language. Standing in the line of Emerson and Thoreau, The World I Live In is a profoundly suggestive exercise in self-invention, and a true, rediscovered classic of American literature. This new edition of The World I Live In also includes Helen Keller's early essay "Optimism," as well as her first published work, "My Story," written when she was twelve.

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ISBN-13: 9781775562283
Publisher: The Floating Press
Publication date: 03/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 216 KB

About the Author

Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. At nineteen months, she suffered from a mysterious illness, perhaps scarlet fever, that left her deaf and blind. When Helen was five, Anne Sullivan was engaged as her teacher. Their relationship and the legendary strides made as a result of it, particularly Helen’s acquisition of language, are the subject of The Story of My Life. A devoted member of the Socialist Party and a tireless advocate for the blind, Helen spent her adult life fundraising and lecturing all over the world. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.

Roger Shattuck (1923–2005) was an American writer and scholar of French culture. He taught at Harvard, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, and Boston University, where he was named University Professor. His books include Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography.

Table of Contents

Introduction: "A World of Words"vii
Preface7
1The Seeing Hand9
2The Hands of Others16
3The Hand of the Race22
4The Power of Touch28
5The Finer Vibrations36
6Smell, the Fallen Angel43
7Relative Values of the Senses52
8The Five-sensed World56
9Inward Visions61
10Analogies in Sense Perception67
11Before the Soul Dawn72
12The Larger Sanctions77
13The Dream World85
14Dreams and Reality97
15A Waking Dream103
A Chant of Darkness113
Optimism: An Essay
Part IOptimism Within127
Part IIOptimism Without134
Part IIIThe Practice of Optimism148
My Story161
Notes and Sources181
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