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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... poem morbid and found it terrifying and chilling . " " Teachers reading the girl's essay pronounced her interpretation wrong , saying she had misread the poem . Yet the girl's own teacher was able to see the rereading as a new and fresh ...
... poem morbid and found it terrifying and chilling . " " Teachers reading the girl's essay pronounced her interpretation wrong , saying she had misread the poem . Yet the girl's own teacher was able to see the rereading as a new and fresh ...
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... poem , the novel , the play , out of the raw material of particular , connected lives . Yet at the same time it may be prompted by a desire for the old feelings of care and affection that past photos reflect . She remains ego - centric ...
... poem , the novel , the play , out of the raw material of particular , connected lives . Yet at the same time it may be prompted by a desire for the old feelings of care and affection that past photos reflect . She remains ego - centric ...
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... poem because she reads it from a young girl's perspective . Though Anjli's teacher thinks the interpretation brings new insight to the poem , other readers give Anjli low ratings because she has failed to provide the standard ...
... poem because she reads it from a young girl's perspective . Though Anjli's teacher thinks the interpretation brings new insight to the poem , other readers give Anjli low ratings because she has failed to provide the standard ...
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