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SUMMARY:Disability Scholarships in Light of English Sources to 1666: Milton
 ’s Sightlessness and the Depiction of Space in "Paradise Lost"
DESCRIPTION:–given by Karmiole Fellow Joseph Nicolello (Temple University
 )\n\nThis presentation was recorded and is made available for viewing on t
 he Center’s YouTube Channel\n\nhttps://youtu.be/KHz-ndp9atE\n\nWhat is M
 ilton talking about when he speaks of Pandemonium or the Garden as though 
 they are actual places–and why did it take blindness for this vision to 
 crystallize in earnest? The theoretical dimension of disability studies ex
 hausted\, there must commence an archival turn. Joseph Nicolello’s aim h
 as been to inaugurate this turn through the Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Gradu
 ate Research Fellowship at the Clark Library. Through the works of authors
  such as George Hakewill and Richard Brathwaite\, Nicolello will examine o
 bscurer early modern textual dimensions of blindness\, so often in light o
 f a thoroughly biblical worldview concerned with the ramifications of sigh
 t and sightlessness. Through documents such as those works attributed to J
 ohn Milton\, we penetrate just what posterity has assumed must have been M
 ilton’s take on matters including blindness\, while works such as “A P
 aire of Spectacles for the Citie” offer minor views of mythical creation
  and allegorical blindness. Nicolello hopes to shed light on these obscure
 r documents somewhat in the footsteps of American scholar and author John 
 Williams\, whose English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems
  bridged the gap between ‘major’ and ‘minor’ poets\; Nicolello’s
  intention is to fuse the ‘visible’ and the ‘invisible.’ Through d
 iscretion and synthesis\, a vision emerges of world-creation and imaginati
 ve creation that dialectically converges with contemporary innovations in 
 literary theory\, history\, philosophy\, and medicine.\n\nJoseph Nicolello
  is a 2023 Schoenberg Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and doctora
 l candidate at Temple University. His research concerns John Milton\, earl
 y modern literature\, medieval typology\, phenomenology\, the senses\, and
  perception. Related interests include American Literature\, Edmund Husser
 l\, Michel Henry\, William Blake\, and the composition of both poetry and 
 literature. Nicolello is the author of the three-volume Künstlerroman U
 ntil the Sun Breaks Down (Eugene: Resource Publications\, 2021)\, a book 
 on the place of Thomism and medieval philosophy in the literary theory of 
 Flannery O'Connor (Greenpoint: Angelico Press\, 2021)\, as well as a quart
 et of novellas on the four seasons in New York City: Winter/Brooklyn has a
 ppeared (Greenpoint: Angelico Press\, 2020)\, "Summer/Bronx" is under cont
 ract\, and "Spring/Queens" and "Autumn/Manhattan" are forthcoming. The Ken
 neth Karmiole Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship\, coupled with long sum
 mer days at the Mutter Museum research room in Philadelphia\, have greatly
  enhanced his research into early modern literature\, mythology\, sight an
 d sightlessness\, the visible and invisible\, as concerns conceptual histo
 ry\, literary narrative\, and the essence of the manifestation of ontologi
 cal Being.\n\n\n\nImage: Walker\, &amp\; Burdett-Coutts\, A. G. (1658). Po
 rtrait of John Milton. Clark Library Rare Book Stacks\; A.0042.
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