Colby Quarterly, Volume 34Colby College, 1998 |
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Page 71
... birth and dying ( Bless me father ) though I do not wish to wish these things [ . ] ( AW , 66 ) Belief would assure profit to the sincere , but is no longer possible ; secularism is repellent . Equivocation seems the only option , but ...
... birth and dying ( Bless me father ) though I do not wish to wish these things [ . ] ( AW , 66 ) Belief would assure profit to the sincere , but is no longer possible ; secularism is repellent . Equivocation seems the only option , but ...
Page 162
... birth ; rather , she will reaffirm the feminine and thereby institute a realignment of power . A large part of her transformative power stems from Miss Spring's generos- ity to other women . Even in her earliest work , Jewett has women ...
... birth ; rather , she will reaffirm the feminine and thereby institute a realignment of power . A large part of her transformative power stems from Miss Spring's generos- ity to other women . Even in her earliest work , Jewett has women ...
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... birth . This story struggles against Kristeva's " myth of the archaic mother , " a myth that Jewett would see as both a defining and confining cultural concept . She frequently depicts female characters as either childless through not ...
... birth . This story struggles against Kristeva's " myth of the archaic mother , " a myth that Jewett would see as both a defining and confining cultural concept . She frequently depicts female characters as either childless through not ...
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