TY  - BOOK
AU  - Efron,Arthur
TI  - Experiencing Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Deweyan Account 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789004458758
AV  - PN56.P93 
U1  - 823.8 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Body image
KW  - Psychology and literature
KW  - Sex (Psychology)
KW  - Sex
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004458758
ER  -