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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... Tell Me a Riddle , “ Oh Yes , " and " Tell Me a Riddle , " I hope to show that Olsen achieves through Jeannie a paradigm of moral development that merges the ethic of justice and the ethic of care into a third vision of what Elizabeth ...
... Tell Me a Riddle , “ Oh Yes , " and " Tell Me a Riddle , " I hope to show that Olsen achieves through Jeannie a paradigm of moral development that merges the ethic of justice and the ethic of care into a third vision of what Elizabeth ...
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... tell her parents that there is nothing else to be done at the stage where Carol is , except to " run with your crowd . " Lennie's liberal optimism pleads , " It's that final ? ' ... ' Don't you think kids like Carol and Parry can show ...
... tell her parents that there is nothing else to be done at the stage where Carol is , except to " run with your crowd . " Lennie's liberal optimism pleads , " It's that final ? ' ... ' Don't you think kids like Carol and Parry can show ...
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... Tell Me a Riddle . " " Tell Me a Riddle " Discussions of " Tell Me a Riddle " inevitably center on Eva . The centerpiece is , after all , her story , her death . Consequently , the focus of the commentary is on Eva's struggle as a wife ...
... Tell Me a Riddle . " " Tell Me a Riddle " Discussions of " Tell Me a Riddle " inevitably center on Eva . The centerpiece is , after all , her story , her death . Consequently , the focus of the commentary is on Eva's struggle as a wife ...
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