Both novels present a multilayered plot involving the patterns of mythic quest, romance, and spy story. The protagonists go through a series of experiences, discoveries, and changes of perspective to ...enlarge their horizons of understanding and find their true selves.
Examines the different images of adolescent girls given by women writers in different times and situations, using the following texts: Fanny Burney's Evelina, 1778; George Eliot's The Mill on the ...Floss, 1860; Rosamond Lehmann's Invitation to the Waltz, 1932; Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart, 1938; and Dacia Maraini's L'Eta del Malessere (The Awkward Age), 1962. In differing fashion and atmosphere, all the girls depicted by these authors follow a definite path of formulation and growth, according to the pattern established by the Bildungsroman genre.
Different representations of adolescent girls are examined by analyzing the characters in the works of women writers such as Fanny Burney, George Eliot, Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Bowen and Dacia ...Maraini. A clear pattern of maturity characterize all the girls depicted by the writers although the settings were in different times and situations. Desolation and affliction seem to be the common characteristics of all the girls' future. Self-realization contribute to their maturity in the face of uncertainties.
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