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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Perhaps this is because responsibility and caring have not been properly understood as an ethical stance . ... clarifying the problem : Perhaps girls ' doubling of voice and vision offers an answer to this question [ how can girls enter ...
Perhaps this is because responsibility and caring have not been properly understood as an ethical stance . ... clarifying the problem : Perhaps girls ' doubling of voice and vision offers an answer to this question [ how can girls enter ...
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mothers , perhaps we can see Jeannie doing that in thinking back beyond Helen , to Eva , her grandmother , as the conduit to Jeannie's own self . An examination of the relationship between Jeannie and her grandmother may give us an ...
mothers , perhaps we can see Jeannie doing that in thinking back beyond Helen , to Eva , her grandmother , as the conduit to Jeannie's own self . An examination of the relationship between Jeannie and her grandmother may give us an ...
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Perhaps because it is she whose sadness we have seen the most of . In foregrounding Jeannie , Olsen asks readers to re - remember Jeannie's struggles in the other stories , to understand her evolution through pain , and to notice what ...
Perhaps because it is she whose sadness we have seen the most of . In foregrounding Jeannie , Olsen asks readers to re - remember Jeannie's struggles in the other stories , to understand her evolution through pain , and to notice what ...
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| Title | Women's Ethical Coming-of-age: Adolescent Female Characters in the Prose Fiction of Tillie Olsen |
| Author | Agnes Toloczko Cardoni |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1998 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0761809236, 9780761809234 |
| Length | 120 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Women Authors |
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