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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Page 21
... seems to be a range of ethical moments here : the cheating in homework , the desire to take a photo ( the urge to make the moment resemble better ones from the past ) , the return to egocentrism ( " I'm graduating , " etc. ) , the ...
... seems to be a range of ethical moments here : the cheating in homework , the desire to take a photo ( the urge to make the moment resemble better ones from the past ) , the return to egocentrism ( " I'm graduating , " etc. ) , the ...
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... seems to be the constant measuring of fairness juxtaposed with an equally constant excusing of the teen's own examples of unfair behavior . Jeannie sees nothing wrong with her own cursing , calling it " being grown - up . " She also ...
... seems to be the constant measuring of fairness juxtaposed with an equally constant excusing of the teen's own examples of unfair behavior . Jeannie sees nothing wrong with her own cursing , calling it " being grown - up . " She also ...
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... seems to synthesize the tension between individual freedom and the need for community by suggesting that in Eva's story " personal and collective identity are death and re- creation " ( Orr , Olsen 103 ) . It seems to me that the ...
... seems to synthesize the tension between individual freedom and the need for community by suggesting that in Eva's story " personal and collective identity are death and re- creation " ( Orr , Olsen 103 ) . It seems to me that the ...
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