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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... nature of the moment by joining all three of them : " That's a new one , isn't it ? Allie noticed . She asked me does it hurt ? Does it ? " ( 31 ) . Thus Allie and Whitey are included in her goodness and attention , and the choice for ...
... nature of the moment by joining all three of them : " That's a new one , isn't it ? Allie noticed . She asked me does it hurt ? Does it ? " ( 31 ) . Thus Allie and Whitey are included in her goodness and attention , and the choice for ...
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... nature of my style to my advantage on at least one occasion , thanks to the confidence inspired by the presence of two colleagues . We three co - authored an article in a book on portfolio assessment . 18 What pleases me is that the ...
... nature of my style to my advantage on at least one occasion , thanks to the confidence inspired by the presence of two colleagues . We three co - authored an article in a book on portfolio assessment . 18 What pleases me is that the ...
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... nature of human life " ( 41 ) . And the relational nature of human life is at the 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 ...
... nature of human life " ( 41 ) . And the relational nature of human life is at the 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 ...
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