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Critical Insights: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Table of Contents

About This Volume




On One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest




Biography of Ken Kesey




HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Literary, Historical, and Cultural Contexts of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest




CRITICAL RECEPTION Ratched and McMurphy: A Survey of Critical Commentary on the Central Characters of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest




CRITICAL LENS “Pluralist” Criticism, “Practical” Criticism, and Ken Kesey's Cuckoo's Nest




COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Grapes in the Nest: The Grapes of Wrath and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest




“Minority” Characters in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Bromden, the African American Aides, and Women




Kesey's Transcendental Gothic: Traces of Nineteenth-Century American Romanticism in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest




One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Southwestern Humor, and the Roles of Bromden and McMurphy




Momism and “Beset Manhood”: Sex-Role Theory in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest




“You get your visions through whatever gate you're granted”: Gates and Gatekeepers in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest




America's Minorities in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest




Ken Kesey and His Kosmic Konvergence Machine: A Personal Reminiscence




One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Survey of Commentary on the Film Adaptation




Ken Kesey's Comments on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest




One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: A Survey of Commentary on Major Themes, Important Techniques, Subsidiary Characters, and Other Issues




Chronology of Ken Kesey's Life




Works by Ken Kesey




Bibliography




About the Editor




Contributors