num_pages: 592
description: The imaginative characters and innovative story structure made Ken Kesey?s debut novel ripe for commentary. Take a closer look at One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest, which also enjoyed critical success as a play and a film. The title, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Ken Kesey's One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Ken Kesey, a chronology of the author's life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
language: English
title: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest: Text and Criticism
titlecomplete: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest: Text and Criticism
characters: Randle Patrick McMurphy, William "Billy" Bibbit, Scanlon, Doctor Spivey, Dale Harding, Nurse Ratched, James "Jim" Sefelt, Bruce Fredrickson, Charles Cheswick, Chief Bromden, Martini
genres: Fiction, Classics, Mental Illness, School, Mental Health, American, Psychology, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 716979
places: The United States of America, Oregon, Salem, Oregon
publisher: Penguin Books