Cats Can Be Dangerous to Your Relationships: Cats in the Fiction of Jim Grimsley

Autor: Roman Trušník
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: American and British Studies Annual, Vol 16 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1803-6058
2788-2233
DOI: 10.46585/absa.2023.16.2506
Popis: In the context of culture’s fascination with cats, the present article analyzes the use of felines in two pieces of fiction by the southern writer Jim Grimsley: the short story “The Cathouse Lovers” (1976) and his novel Comfort & Joy (1993 in German, 1999 in English). The two texts differ greatly in terms of the genre, period, as well as the role of cats in the story, yet both of them include the motif of cats that have a negative effect on the romantic and sexual relationships of their human protagonists.
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