Experiencing "Tess of the D' Urbervilles" - Couverture souple

Efron, Arthur

 
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Synopsis

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.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book interprets Thomas Hardys Tess of the DUrbervilles with the openness toward experience recommended by John Deweys 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 Hardys involvement in telling his story. Efron offers a new way of evaluating literature inspired by Deweys pragmatist aesthetics.

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