Experiencing Tess of the d' Urbervilles : a Deweyan account
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Experiencing Tess of the d' Urbervilles : a Deweyan account
（Value inquiry book series, v. 162 . Studies in pragmatism and values）
Rodopi, 2005
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Bibliogrpahy: p. [223]-237
Includes index
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Description
This book interprets Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles with the openness toward experience recommended by John Dewey's Art as Experience. The characters of Tess are considered as real people with sexual bodies and complex minds. Efron identifies the "experience blockers" that the critical tradition has stumbled upon, and defends Hardy's involvement in telling his story. Efron offers a new way of evaluating literature inspired by Dewey's pragmatist aesthetics.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Michael Irwin
Preface and Acknowledgements
ONE Clearing the Foreground for Experiencing Tess
TWO The Body-Mind of Young Tess
THREE Toward Recovery
FOUR Beyond Frustration to Experiential Disaster
FIVE From Confusing Movement to Integral Restoration
SIX Consummations
SEVEN Experience Goes Further
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