Mental illness in Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest

Author(s)

• Bryfonski, Dedria

Bibliographic Information

Mental illness in Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest

Dedria Bryfonski, book editor

（Social issues in literature）

Greenhaven Press, c2010

Note

For further reading: p. 204

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209) and index (p. 210-218)

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Contents of Works

• The life of Ken Kesey / Stephen L. Tanner and Laura M. Zaidman
• Kesey clarifies the role drugs played in the creation of One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Robert Faggen and Ken Kesey
• Kesey was the seminal author of the psychedelic era / Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
• Defying terror was a Kesey hallmark / Douglas Brinkley
• Kesey's realistic view of the world of the insane / Janet R. Sutherland
• McMurphy helps Chief Bromden regain his sanity / Barry H. Leeds
• The patients in Cuckoo's nest regain their manhood by banding together / Terence Martin
• McMurphy is a psychopath, not a hero / Robert Forrey
• Chief Bromden conquers his fears and becomes a hero / Annette Benert
• One flew over the cuckoo's nest questions the meaning of sanity / Ellen Herrenkohl
• The insane are more rational than the sane / Barbara Tepa Lupack
• Kesey creates an Oedipal triangle in Cuckoo's nest / Ruth Sullivan
• Mixed ethnicity and gender issues preset challenges to manhood / Robert P. Waxler
• Kesey critiques a society that uses fear and conformity to emasculate men / Michael Meloy
• People with severe mental illness can live productively in society / Kate Sheppard
• Psychosurgery raises ethical issues / Lauren Slater
• Brain surgeries banned elsewhere are performed in China / Nicholas Zamiska
• Electroshock therapy can help cure depression / Mind, Mood & Memory

Details

• NCID: BB23453967
• ISBN:
  • 9780737750188
• LCCN: 2010008822
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Detroit
• Pages/Volumes: 218 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS3561.E667
  • DC22 : 813/.54
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Kesey, Ken. One flew over the cuckoo's nest
  • LCSH : Kesey, Ken -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Mentally ill in literature
  • LCSH : Psychiatric hospital patients in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA88411218
• Link:
  • www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1409/2010008822-d.html