KEN KESEY
Scope|Circulating
Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web
Sites
Scope: Ken Kesey is a contemporary American writer whose novel
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest established him as a popular and prominent literary figure. Kesey was influenced by the drug counterculture of the 1960’s and his novels are personal critiques of a mass society that destroys individualism. His novels have been adapted into widely successful films.
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of Ken Kesey’s works are listed in our on-line catalog
under "Kesey,
Ken” and under individual titles.
Books written by and about Ken Kesey have the call number(s)
PS 3561.E667
Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
Ferrell, William K. Literature and
Film as Modern Mythology. Westport, Conn: Praeger,
2000.
Porter, M. Gilbert. One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Rising to Heroism. Boston:
Twayne, 1989.
CRITICAL SOURCES
PR 821.C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction
PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography
Vol. 2 American Novelists Since World War
II
Vol. 16 The Beats, Literary
Bohemians in Postwar America
PN 771.M3 1991 Major
20th-Century Writers
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a
list of full text journals available through our
databases in:
WEB SITES
American Authors on the Web
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html
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Updated
02/08/2007
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