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1、PowerandSexualAmbiguity:The"Dreadnought"Hoax,"TheVoyageout,Mrs.Dalloway"and"Orlando"Author(s):JeanE.KennardReviewedwork(s):Source:JournalofModernLiterature,Vol.20,No.2(Winter,1996),pp.149-164Publishedby:IndianaUniversityPressStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3831472.Accessed:27/05/201220:57
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4、readnoughtHoax,VoyageOut,Mrs.DallowayandOrlandoJeanE.KennardUniversityofNewHampshirelnALiteratureofTheirOwn(1977),ElaineShowalteraccusesVirginiaWoolfof"expressingaclass-orientedandBloomsbury-orientedideal,"ofseparatingpoliticsandart,ofindulgingin"thefashionofbisexuality."1Insupportofthisaccusat
5、ion,Showalterquotesthewell-knownpassagefrom,4RoomofOne'sOwninwhichWoolfpraisestheandrogynousmind,comparingittoamanandawomanenteringataxitogether."Ifoneisaman,"writesWoolf,"stillthewomanpartofthebrainmusthaveeffect;andawomanmustalsohaveintercoursewiththemaninher....Itiswhenthisfusiontakesplaceth
6、atthemindisfullyfertilizedandusesallitsfaculties."2TheimplicationsofShowalter'sstatement,althoughnotnecessarilyhercondemnation,arestillfoundincommentariesonWoolf'sandrogynousvision.Showalter'sstatementistypicalfirstinitsconflationofandrogynywithbisexuality;despitetheimageryofsexuality,thepassag
7、efromARoomofOne'sOwnspeaksonlyofamentalbalancebetweenmaleandfemale,notofdesire.Woolfherselfcarefullydistinguishesbetweenandrogynyandbisexuality.Indeed,herfictiondemonstratesanincreasingwillingnesstodealwithbisexualdesire,sometimes