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Test:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Forty multiple-choice questions from GradeSaver with answers.
Selected
Bibliography for Ken Kesey
This site contains an extensive bibliography of works by and about Ken
Kesey including interviews, critical works, and short stories.
Ken
Kesey and the Merry Pranksters (essay)
"Essay on the life and writings of Ken Kesey and others associated
with the Merry Pranksters and Kesey's Acid Tests. Discusses Kesey's
early experimentation with hallucinogens under the auspices of the U.S.
government as well as encounters between Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
and prominent counterculture figures such as Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady,
Allen Ginsberg, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Timothy Leary."
Metaphor
and mind style in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. (essay)
"Roger Fowler coined the term "mind style" in 1977 to
describe the phenomenon in which the language of a text projects a characteristic
world view, a particular way of perceiving and making sense of the world."
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Lesson Plan)
This Discovery School lesson plan for grades 7-12 focuses on critical
reviews and the issues involved in adapting novels for the screen. Offers
vocabulary, focus questions, and additional links
One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (WebQuest)
Online research activity. "You are an undercover social worker
assigned to check yourself into the "Quest" Psychiatric Ward.
During your stay at the ward, you must complete a number of steps to
research the treatment of the patients in the asylum. Use your
knowledge from the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
to help you complete each assignment." Most, but not all, external
links are working at this site.
Topics for Further Study
(Essay assignment)
" Write a short essay or story on what would happen if McMurphy
took a job in a large corporation with a formal culture and a hierarchical
structure. Be imaginative. Create characters who represent a variety
of corporate types (the boss, the flatterer, the slacker, the busybody).
Do not change McMurphy's personality, character, or behavior. Research
the definitions of various mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia.
Was McMurphy mentally ill or just a maverick who didn't fit into structured
society? Defend your point of view with facts and illustrations."
brief
Discussion Guide for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Interview
This site contain an interview done with Ken Kesey at the Naropa Institute.
Ken
Kesey obituary article from BBC- 10 November, 2001
short
tutorial essay re J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Ken Kesey's
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey Web Site
Mostly memorabilia, but click "Writings" to see an article
Kesey wrote for Rolling Stone about the shootings at Thurston High School
in Springfield, Oregon, as well as his Christmas story and Twister article.
Secondary Print Sources
*Novels for Students Vol 2. Ref PN 3365 .N6 v.2 - Includes short biography
of Kesey and information of his book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Includes plot summary, characters, style, themes, criticism... of his
work One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
(Specific studies of Cuckoo's Nest and Kesey's fiction)
Billingsley, Ronald B., The Artistry of Ken Kesey, 1971
Critical edition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, ed. John C. Pratt,
1973
Leeds, Barry H., Ken Kesey, 1981
Porter, M. Gilbert, The Art of Grit: Ken Kesey's Fiction, 1982
(Kesey's place in American literature and culture)
Allen, Mary, The Necessary Blankness: Women in Major American Fiction
of the Sixties, 1976
Cook, Bruce, The Beat Generation, 1971
Harris, Charles B. Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd
Perry, Paul. On the Bus: The Complete Guide to the Legendary Trip of
Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and the Birth of the Counterculture,
1990
Wallace, Ronald, The Last Laugh: Form and Affirmation in the Contemporary
American Comic Novel
Wolfe, Tom, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, 1968
Some reviews of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest:
- New Yorker, April 21, 1962
- New York Herald Tribune, February 25, 1962
- New York Times Book Review, February 4, 1962
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