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Modern Critical Interpretations Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of the Humanities Yale University CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS Philadelphia

Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ·  · 2007-12-06vi CONTENTS One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: "It's True Even If It Didn't Happen" 79 Barry H. Leeds The Plucky Love Song

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Page 1: Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ·  · 2007-12-06vi CONTENTS One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: "It's True Even If It Didn't Happen" 79 Barry H. Leeds The Plucky Love Song

Modern Critical Interpretations

Ken Kesey's

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Edited and with an introduction byHarold Bloom

Sterling Professor of the HumanitiesYale University

CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERSPhiladelphia

Page 2: Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ·  · 2007-12-06vi CONTENTS One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: "It's True Even If It Didn't Happen" 79 Barry H. Leeds The Plucky Love Song

Contents

Editor's Note vii

Introduction 1Harold Bloom

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the Comic Strip 3Terry G. Sherwood

Edge City (Ken Kesey) 15Tony Tanner

The Grail Knight Arrives: Ken Kesey,One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest 3 5Raymond M. Olderman

Christ in the Cuckoo's Nest: or, the GospelAccording to Ken Kesey 47Bruce E. Wallis

Salvation Through Laughter: Ken Kesey & theCuckoo's Nest 55Stephen L. Tanner

Hustling to Some Purpose: Kesey'sOne Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 67

John Wilson Foster

Page 3: Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ·  · 2007-12-06vi CONTENTS One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: "It's True Even If It Didn't Happen" 79 Barry H. Leeds The Plucky Love Song

vi CONTENTS

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: "It's True EvenIf It Didn't Happen" 79Barry H. Leeds

The Plucky Love Song of Chief "Broom" Bromden:Poetry from Fragments 101M. Gilbert Porter

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 123Stephen L. Tanner

Musical Messages in Kesey's Novels: You CanTell a Man by the Song that He Sings 153M. Gilbert Porter

The Carnival Artist in the Cuckoo's Nest 161Benjamin Goluboff

Chronology 175

Contributors 179

Bibliography 181

Acknowledgments 183

Index 185