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"Such as might have arisen only out of hell": A Note on Poe's Hellenic Motifs in "The Black Cat"
2018
Complutense Journal of English Studies
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" has received a great deal of scholarly attention over the years from a variety of perspectives, not least the domestic and symbolic presence of Pluto in the story. Kent Ljungquist (1980) saw Poe's narrative in terms of classical literary tradition, specifically the notion of the daemonic, yet confined his study to Pluto's demonic features, arguing that the cat may be an infernal spirit sent to castigate the narrator. Other studies, such as Clark Moreland and
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