A Marxist Reading of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Essay -- One Flew

Fred Wright, Laurens instructor for EN 132 (Life, Language, Literature), comments, English 132 is an introduction to English studies, in which students scan nearly various areas in the discipline from linguistics to the study of touristed culture. For the literature and literary criticism section of the course, students read a introductory work of literature and what scholars have said about the work over the years. This year, students read One Flew over the buffoons Nest, by Ken Kesey, a chaste of American literature which dates from the 1960s counterculture. Popularized in a film strain starring Jack Nicholson, which the class also watched in order to dissertate film studies and adaptation, the novel became notable for its sympathetic portrayal of the mentally ill. For an search about the novel, students were asked to choose a critical approach (such as feminist, formalist, psychological, and so forth) and interpret the novel using that approach, while also considering h ow their interpretation outburst into the ongoing scholarly dialogue about the work. Lauren chose the challenge of applying a bolshie approach to One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest. Not only did she learn about critical approaches and how to apply one to a text, she wrote an excellent look for, which will alleviate other commentators understand the text better. In fact, if John Clark Pratt or some other editor ever want to update the 1996 Viking full of life Library adaptation of the novel, then he or she might want to include Laurens essay in the next editionAt first glance, a reader may wonder how Ken Keseys novel One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, a book depicting a pigeonholing of mentally unstable men and their boisterous Irish-American leader, connects with the economic and sociological medical prognosis o... ...lett, Moyra. Marxist Literary and Cultural Theories. modernistic York St. Martins Press, 2000. Print. Industrial Revolution. The New American Desk Encyclopedia. 5t h ed. 1989. Print. Kappel, Lawrence. Readings on One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 2000. Print. Kesey, Ken. One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest. Ed. John Clark Pratt. New York Viking-Penguin, 1996. Print. Viking Critical Library. Loeb, Roger C. Machines, Mops, and Medicaments Therapy in the Cuckoos Nest. Lex et Scientia 13. 1-2 (1977) 38-41. Rpt. Kappel 85-91. Malin, Irving. Ken Kesey One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest. limited review 5.2 (1962) 81-84. Rpt. in Kesey 440-444. Marxism. The New American Desk Encyclopedia. 5th ed. 1989. Print. Parker, Robert Dale. How to Interpret Literature Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies. New York Oxford, 2011. Print.