“The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King

In one of his most famous stories ever written, “The Black Cat” (1843), Edgar Allan Poe chose an animal as a protagonist. However, this pet was going to have an afterlife as one of the most devilish creatures created by the pen of the Bostonian. More than a century later, Flannery O’Connor included...

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Autor: Correoso Ródenas, José Manuel
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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821.111(73)King, Stephen
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spelling “The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King Correoso Ródenas, José Manuel 821.111(73)Poe, Edgar Allan 821.111(73)King, Stephen 821.111(73)O’Connor, Flannery 82.091 Edgar Allan Poe Flannery O’Connor Stephen King Gothic Cats Filología inglesa Prosa Escritores Literatura 6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias 5505.10 Filología In one of his most famous stories ever written, “The Black Cat” (1843), Edgar Allan Poe chose an animal as a protagonist. However, this pet was going to have an afterlife as one of the most devilish creatures created by the pen of the Bostonian. More than a century later, Flannery O’Connor included a story in her MFA Thesis entitled “Wildcat.” Years later, in 1955, her most recognized story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” was published. Both narratives include a cat, in this case not as a main “character,” but as the element that triggers the subsequent tragedy. In 1977, the magazine Cavalier published a short story by Stephen King under the title of “The Cat from Hell.” King’s cat also drives its owner to physical and mental destruction, as Pluto, the wildcat, and Pitty Sing had done before it. This article is based on how three stories (O’Connor’s “Wildcat” -1947- and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” -1955- and King’s “The Cat From Hell” -1977-) recreate the characters of the anonymous cat and of Pluto in their pages Moreover, this article also intends to prove the influence of Poe’s “The Black Cat” on authors like Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King. Ubiquity Press https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/107719
title “The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King
spellingShingle “The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King
Correoso Ródenas, José Manuel
821.111(73)Poe, Edgar Allan
821.111(73)King, Stephen
821.111(73)O’Connor, Flannery
82.091
Edgar Allan Poe
Flannery O’Connor
Stephen King
Gothic
Cats
Filología inglesa
Prosa
Escritores
Literatura
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
5505.10 Filología
title_short “The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King
title_full “The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King
title_fullStr “The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King
title_full_unstemmed “The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King
title_sort “The ‘Cats’ from Hell”: The Long Shadow of Poe’s Feline in the Short Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King
author Correoso Ródenas, José Manuel
author_facet Correoso Ródenas, José Manuel
author_role author
topic 821.111(73)Poe, Edgar Allan
821.111(73)King, Stephen
821.111(73)O’Connor, Flannery
82.091
Edgar Allan Poe
Flannery O’Connor
Stephen King
Gothic
Cats
Filología inglesa
Prosa
Escritores
Literatura
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
5505.10 Filología
topic_facet 821.111(73)Poe, Edgar Allan
821.111(73)King, Stephen
821.111(73)O’Connor, Flannery
82.091
Edgar Allan Poe
Flannery O’Connor
Stephen King
Gothic
Cats
Filología inglesa
Prosa
Escritores
Literatura
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
5505.10 Filología
description In one of his most famous stories ever written, “The Black Cat” (1843), Edgar Allan Poe chose an animal as a protagonist. However, this pet was going to have an afterlife as one of the most devilish creatures created by the pen of the Bostonian. More than a century later, Flannery O’Connor included a story in her MFA Thesis entitled “Wildcat.” Years later, in 1955, her most recognized story, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” was published. Both narratives include a cat, in this case not as a main “character,” but as the element that triggers the subsequent tragedy. In 1977, the magazine Cavalier published a short story by Stephen King under the title of “The Cat from Hell.” King’s cat also drives its owner to physical and mental destruction, as Pluto, the wildcat, and Pitty Sing had done before it. This article is based on how three stories (O’Connor’s “Wildcat” -1947- and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” -1955- and King’s “The Cat From Hell” -1977-) recreate the characters of the anonymous cat and of Pluto in their pages Moreover, this article also intends to prove the influence of Poe’s “The Black Cat” on authors like Flannery O’Connor and Stephen King.
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