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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... literary theory , and calls attention to the American literary canon's dearth of works foregrounding moral perspectives situated in responsibility and caring . Chapter Two considers the character Jeannie in Olsen's short stories " Hey ...
... literary theory , and calls attention to the American literary canon's dearth of works foregrounding moral perspectives situated in responsibility and caring . Chapter Two considers the character Jeannie in Olsen's short stories " Hey ...
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... literary canon are long - lived and intense . Were it not that some serious issues are at stake in tinkering with the canon , we would make the changes cavalierly and without the light and heat usually generated by such discussions ...
... literary canon are long - lived and intense . Were it not that some serious issues are at stake in tinkering with the canon , we would make the changes cavalierly and without the light and heat usually generated by such discussions ...
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... literary theory can be of help to young women in the hurricane of adolescence presents exciting possibilities for ... literary theory and by the insights of feminist literary critics " that will offer " the relational nature of human ...
... literary theory can be of help to young women in the hurricane of adolescence presents exciting possibilities for ... literary theory and by the insights of feminist literary critics " that will offer " the relational nature of human ...
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