“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
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
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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 KingCorreoso Ródenas, José Manuel821.111(73)Poe, Edgar Allan821.111(73)King, Stephen821.111(73)O’Connor, Flannery82.091Edgar Allan PoeFlannery O’ConnorStephen KingGothicCatsFilología inglesaProsaEscritoresLiteratura6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias5505.10 FilologíaIn 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 PressUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20222022-01-0120222022-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/107719reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/1077192026-06-02T12:44:21Z
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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
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dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Correoso Ródenas, José Manuel
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 821.111(73)Poe, Edgar Allan
821.111(73)King, Stephen
821.111(73)O’Connor, Flannery
82.091
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Flannery O’Connor
Stephen King
Gothic
Cats
Filología inglesa
Prosa
Escritores
Literatura
6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias
5505.10 Filología
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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
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