<b>Impossible promise: the child and the androgyne in Thomas Kilroy's The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde and My Scandalous Life</b><br>
In The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde and My Scandalous Life, the impossible ideals of perfect harmony between the sexes and perfect innocence are symbolically represented by the figures of the Androgyne and the child. In a process that illustrates the Wildean paradox that "each man kills the t...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2010-01-01
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Series: | Ilha do Desterro |
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Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/16429 |