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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Leaning from the middle stair : didn't know you were sick , Whitey , thought you were like ... some of the other times . ( 31-2 ) There seems to be a range of ethical moments here : the cheating in homework , the desire to take a photo ...
Leaning from the middle stair : didn't know you were sick , Whitey , thought you were like ... some of the other times . ( 31-2 ) There seems to be a range of ethical moments here : the cheating in homework , the desire to take a photo ...
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I want to answer the question by reading the ellipsis between “ And hear ” and “ Like I'm her ” as a suggestion of Carol's thought segueing from Vicky back to Parry . Otherwise , the intensity of Carol's feelings here seem out of ...
I want to answer the question by reading the ellipsis between “ And hear ” and “ Like I'm her ” as a suggestion of Carol's thought segueing from Vicky back to Parry . Otherwise , the intensity of Carol's feelings here seem out of ...
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It was 1969 , and I was waxing eloquent , so I thought , on the beauty of Dickens's ending , and the wonders of the whole novel . As I finished rereading Sydney Carton's last words , a little redhead in the last seat of the first row ...
It was 1969 , and I was waxing eloquent , so I thought , on the beauty of Dickens's ending , and the wonders of the whole novel . As I finished rereading Sydney Carton's last words , a little redhead in the last seat of the first row ...
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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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