Flying South: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’ in Three Stories by Flannery O’Connor

  1. José Manuel Correoso Rodenas 1
  2. José Manuel Correoso Rodenas
  1. 1 Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
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    Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

    Ciudad Real, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05r78ng12

Journal:
Humanities Bulletin

ISSN: 2517-4266

Year of publication: 2019

Volume: 2

Issue: 1

Pages: 135-159

Type: Article

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Abstract

The influence of Edgar Allan Poe in many later authors is beyond any doubt. Themes, characters, locations, scenes, etc., have been used by writers belonging to a wide range of varieties. Among them, Flannery O’Connor acknowledged how Poe had influenced her fiction, and these influences can be traced through some of her most iconic pieces. This essay focuses on how O’Connor retold some of the key elements of the poem “The Raven” and included them in three of her short stories.