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1、Pearl-diving:InscriptionsofDesireandCreativityinH.D.andWoolfSimpson,Kathryn,1967-JournalofModernLiterature,Volume27,Number4,Summer2004,pp.37-58(Article)PublishedbyIndianaUniversityPressDOI:10.1353/jml.2005.0012Foradditionalinformationaboutthisarticlehttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jml/summary/v02

2、7/27.4simpson.htmlAccessProvidedbyUniversityofScience__ACCESS_STATEMENT__TechnologyBeijingat05/10/129:54AMGMTPearl-diving:InscriptionsofDesireandCreativityinH.D.andWoolfKathrynSimpsonUniversityofBirminghamHerbreastisfitforpearls,ButIwasnotaʻDiverʼ—EmilyDickinsonPaulaBennetthassuggestedthataclos

3、erexaminationoftheuseofjewelsandothersmallobjects(seeds,buds,berries,smallcompactflowersandbees)intheworkofDickinsonandothernine-teenth-centurywomenpoetsrevealsadeliberateemploymentofclitoralimagerywhichispartof“ahighlynuanceddiscourseoffemaleeroticdesire”andwhichamountstotheemergenceofan“indep

4、endentfemalesexualsymbology”(“Critical”241,253).1Shearguesthatsuchimagerynotonlyencodestaboodesires,suchasactiveheterosexualdesire,homoeroticpassionandthepleasuresofmasturbation,butpresentsaversionoffemalesexualitywhichisdistinctfromphallocentricmodelsandconventionalnotionsofwomenaspassionless

5、andmotivatedsolelybythedrivetoreproduce(“Critical”247–8).ThewritingofH.D.,Woolfandotherwomenmodernistwriterscontinuestoappropriatetheimpliciteroticismofpearlsandotherpreciousgems,andtoexploittherangeofassociationsofsuchgemsinordertoencodesexualpleasuresanddesiresbetweenwomen.2However,whereasth

6、elover-speakerofDickinsonʼspoemdeniesbeinganactiveseekerof1.ForfurtherdiscussionofclitorocentricimageryseePaulaBennettʼsessay,“ThePeathatDutyLocks:LesbianandFeminist-HeterosexualReadingsofEmilyDickinsonʼsPoetry.”2.Inavarietyofcontemporarywriting(literary,poetic,popularandacademic)pearlscontinu

7、etometaphoricallyencode,expressandexplicitlypronouncethepleasuresofsexanderoticismbetweenwomen.See,forexample,SarahWatersʼTip-pingtheVelvetandLeeandSilveraʼsPearlsofPassion:ATreasuryofLesbianEroticawhichexplicitlyexploittheeroticassocia