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Experiencing Tess of the d'Urbervilles
A Deweyan Account
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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.Contents Foreword by Michael Irwin Preface and Acknowledgements ONE Clearing the Foreground for Experiencing Tess TWO The Body-Min...
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.
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
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
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
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index