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Experiencing Tess of the dâUrbervilles
A Deweyan Account
Series: - Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 162
- Studies in Pragmatism and Values, Volume: 162
Author:
This book interprets Thomas Hardyâs Tess of the DâUrbervilles with the openness toward experience recommended by John Deweyâs Art as Experience. The characters of Tess are considered as real people with sexual bodies and complex minds. Efron identifies the âexperience blockersâ that the critical tradition has stumbled upon, and defends Hardyâs involvement in telling his story. Efron offers a new way of evaluating literature inspired by Deweyâs pragmatist aesthetics.
"an engaging, direct and honest exploration of Hardyâs novel. ⦠This book will delight, intrigue, challenge and infuriate in equal measure; but agree or disagree, one is guaranteed a refreshing and often enlightening re-visitation of a much-loved tale." - in: The Hardy Society Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (June 2005)
"Efron (literature, SUNY Buffalo) offers a fresh, intensely personal reading of Thomas Hardyâs Tess. Adopting a linear, sequential approach, the author focuses his explication on character, pragmatist aesthetics, drawn notably from John Deweyâs Art as Experience, provide the theoretical framework for the authorâs carefully wrought interpretations. ⦠Efronâs study is clear and conversationalâ¦" - in: Book News (February 2005)
"There is much in [this book] that can make for often interesting reading and sometimes rewarding reading. Efron is at his most useful, I think, in his discussions of major critical cruxes in the novel â¦there is, also, the exceptional breadth of the many critical and cultural interconnections it makes. â¦.And there is too, the humane clarity with which this book is written and the authorâs full engagement with his subject." - in: English Literature in Transition 48:3 (2005)
"Efron (literature, SUNY Buffalo) offers a fresh, intensely personal reading of Thomas Hardyâs Tess. Adopting a linear, sequential approach, the author focuses his explication on character, pragmatist aesthetics, drawn notably from John Deweyâs Art as Experience, provide the theoretical framework for the authorâs carefully wrought interpretations. ⦠Efronâs study is clear and conversationalâ¦" - in: Book News (February 2005)
"There is much in [this book] that can make for often interesting reading and sometimes rewarding reading. Efron is at his most useful, I think, in his discussions of major critical cruxes in the novel â¦there is, also, the exceptional breadth of the many critical and cultural interconnections it makes. â¦.And there is too, the humane clarity with which this book is written and the authorâs full engagement with his subject." - in: English Literature in Transition 48:3 (2005)
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
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