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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... heart . ( Broumas 62 ) Heilbrun's commencement audience consisted of women coming of age in the twentieth century in North America -- coming of age in the white male culture . The young women in Tillie Olsen's fiction are coming of age ...
... heart . ( Broumas 62 ) Heilbrun's commencement audience consisted of women coming of age in the twentieth century in North America -- coming of age in the white male culture . The young women in Tillie Olsen's fiction are coming of age ...
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... heart of the universe -- at the heart of our common life -- hearing human beings to speech -- to our own speech . ( 128 ) Having done this for Eva , Jeannie needs to direct her grandfather one last time , and therein , to have the last ...
... heart of the universe -- at the heart of our common life -- hearing human beings to speech -- to our own speech . ( 128 ) Having done this for Eva , Jeannie needs to direct her grandfather one last time , and therein , to have the last ...
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... heart of Olsen's work as scholar , teacher , writer , and feminist . It behooves those of us who read texts and discuss them with students to include the essentiality of human connection in our reflections and discussions . To neglect ...
... heart of Olsen's work as scholar , teacher , writer , and feminist . It behooves those of us who read texts and discuss them with students to include the essentiality of human connection in our reflections and discussions . To neglect ...
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