Study Guide to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (eBook)

Intelligent Education (Urheber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
144 Seiten
Dexterity (Verlag)
978-1-64542-301-0 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was an immediate critical success upon its release in 1964.As a novel of the late 1900s, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a product of Keseys drug stimulated imagination, and much of the original material was written under the influence of LSD and peyote which Kesey took to induce in himself a state of mind similar to that of his narrator, the schizophrenic Indian Chief Broom. Moreover, Time magazine called it a roar of protest against middlebrow societys Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them. This Bright Notes Study Guide explores the context and history of Kesey's classic work, helping students to thoroughly explore the reasons it has stood the literary test of time. Each Bright Notes Study Guide contains:- Introductions to the Author and the Work- Character Summaries- Plot Guides- Section and Chapter Overviews- Test Essay and Study Q&AsThe Bright Notes Study Guide series offers an in-depth tour of more than 275 classic works of literature, exploring characters, critical commentary, historical background, plots, and themes. This set of study guides encourages readers to dig deeper in their understanding by includingessay questions and answers as well as topics for further research.

Inhalt

CONTENTS



1) Introduction to Ken Kesey



2) Structure, Theme, Literary Devices, Stylistics



3) Textual Analysis

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V



4) Minor Characters



5) Essay Questions and Answers



6) Topics for Research and Criticism



7) Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.2.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Bright Notes
• Reihe/Serie: Bright Notes
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• Schlagworte: Drugs • drug stimulated imagination • LSD • Mental Health • mental institution • middlebrow society • Peyote • Schizophrenic • Social norms • Social Rules • Society • Twentieth century
• ISBN-10: 1-64542-301-8 / 1645423018
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64542-301-0 / 9781645423010