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| − | '''Kesey, Ken. ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''. | + | '''Kesey, Ken. ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''.''' New York: Viking, 1962. New York: NAL, [1963]. [[Category: Fiction]] |
A "total Institution," an insane asylum, becomes a microcosm for a world in danger of succumbing to mechanizing and castrating influences represented in the Narrator's mind as "the Combine." Features a Terrible Mother (Big Nurse) opposed to a clownish rebel (R. P. McMurphy). Since the Narrator is insane for much of the book, the mechanization motifs are mostly metaphoric, and ''OFOCN'' is "mainstream" (or "mundane") fiction. Caution: a rather misogynist work. [[Category: Fiction]] | A "total Institution," an insane asylum, becomes a microcosm for a world in danger of succumbing to mechanizing and castrating influences represented in the Narrator's mind as "the Combine." Features a Terrible Mother (Big Nurse) opposed to a clownish rebel (R. P. McMurphy). Since the Narrator is insane for much of the book, the mechanization motifs are mostly metaphoric, and ''OFOCN'' is "mainstream" (or "mundane") fiction. Caution: a rather misogynist work. [[Category: Fiction]] | ||
Latest revision as of 18:18, 29 September 2014
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Viking, 1962. New York: NAL, [1963].
A "total Institution," an insane asylum, becomes a microcosm for a world in danger of succumbing to mechanizing and castrating influences represented in the Narrator's mind as "the Combine." Features a Terrible Mother (Big Nurse) opposed to a clownish rebel (R. P. McMurphy). Since the Narrator is insane for much of the book, the mechanization motifs are mostly metaphoric, and OFOCN is "mainstream" (or "mundane") fiction. Caution: a rather misogynist work.
