Women's Ethical Coming-of-age: Adolescent Female Characters in the Prose Fiction of Tillie OlsenThis work examines Tillie Olsen's four short stories in Tell Me A Riddle, and her novel fragment Yonnondio: From the Thirties in terms of the ethical development of the adolescent female characters. The study uses the ethics of responsibility and care as identified by Carol Gilligan to investigate each young female character's struggle to grow, to make her place in the world, and to remain in relationship with herself and others. The book contextualizes the exclusion of the ethics of care from the literary canon and argues for inclusion of multiple ethical modes. |
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... Jeannie's accepting it , other than Whitey's drunkenness . Still unsatisfied , Jeannie utters the words that mark her firm detachment from Whitey , using " words that hurt , " and that probably are ... Jeannie to The " Jeannie " Stories 29.
... Jeannie's accepting it , other than Whitey's drunkenness . Still unsatisfied , Jeannie utters the words that mark her firm detachment from Whitey , using " words that hurt , " and that probably are ... Jeannie to The " Jeannie " Stories 29.
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... Jeannie tells David . " Isn't that what they call love ? " David is moved by Jeannie's own love for Eva . ( 108 ) . As her illness intensifies , Eva is moved to speech , filling the apartment with words : " she , who in her life had ...
... Jeannie tells David . " Isn't that what they call love ? " David is moved by Jeannie's own love for Eva . ( 108 ) . As her illness intensifies , Eva is moved to speech , filling the apartment with words : " she , who in her life had ...
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... Jeannie will relieve him in the morning , he sees Jeannie's sketch pad where Jeannie has drawn a picture of the two of them , a piece of art that shows him what to do next : went to press the buzzer to wake Jeannie , looked down , saw on ...
... Jeannie will relieve him in the morning , he sees Jeannie's sketch pad where Jeannie has drawn a picture of the two of them , a piece of art that shows him what to do next : went to press the buzzer to wake Jeannie , looked down , saw on ...
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