Download or read book Experiencing Tess of the d’Urbervilles written by Arthur Efron and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.