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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... sense , I am not the sole author of this text . It is a collaboration among many people who have supported me and my work , not only at Lehigh University but elsewhere . Kind and generous teachers , family , friends , and students have ...
... sense , I am not the sole author of this text . It is a collaboration among many people who have supported me and my work , not only at Lehigh University but elsewhere . Kind and generous teachers , family , friends , and students have ...
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... sense of self - importance . Any change in the list -- a move into pluralism , muticulturalism , feminism -- threatens the assumptions upon which the American literary canon rests . This is not to say that examination of cultural ...
... sense of self - importance . Any change in the list -- a move into pluralism , muticulturalism , feminism -- threatens the assumptions upon which the American literary canon rests . This is not to say that examination of cultural ...
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... sense of having gained an artistic and authentic self . ( Orr , Olsen 84-85 ) Orr's " authentic self " contrasts with Coiner's heteroglossia , and creates a space for my own understanding of Emily , somewhere between her being subsumed ...
... sense of having gained an artistic and authentic self . ( Orr , Olsen 84-85 ) Orr's " authentic self " contrasts with Coiner's heteroglossia , and creates a space for my own understanding of Emily , somewhere between her being subsumed ...
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