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In the Singer's Temple: Prose Fictions of Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski

Book by Jack Hicks; University of North Carolina Press, 1981

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Barthelme, Gaines, Brautigan, Piercy, Kesey, and Kosinski by Jack Hicks THE UNIVERSITY...Marge Piercy, Richard Brautigan, Ken Kesey 138 CHAPTER FIVE...and company for Our Gang and even Ken Kesey turns to shredded memoirs and reflections...
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The Critical Response to Tom Wolfe

Book by Doug Shomette; Greenwood Press, 1992

Subjects:

Wolfe, Tom--Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Author of The Right Stuff and other journalistic writings in a literary vein and the novel Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe has been lauded and vilified by the critics for breaking down the barriers between fact and fiction, journalism and literature, and for his stylistic idiosyncrasies. Doug ...
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Author of The Right Stuff and other journalistic writings in a literary vein and the novel Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe has been lauded and vilified by the critics for breaking down the barriers between fact and fiction, journalism and literature, and for his stylistic idiosyncrasies. Doug Shomette here collects from four to eight representative reviews and critical commentary on each of Wolfe's eleven major works. A judicious introduction summarizes these fifty-four pieces as well as other notable critical reactions not reprinted. Also included is a chronology of important events in Wolfe's career, a bibliography of additional readings, and an index.
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Insanity as Redemption in Contemporary American Fiction: Inmates Running the Asylum

Book by Barbara Tepa Lupack; University Press of Florida, 1995

Subjects:

American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Literature And Mental Illness--United States--History--20th Century, Mentally Ill In Literature, Psychiatric Hospital Patients In Literature, Redemption In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...to contemporary America as well. Ken Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest , according...Sophie. As many other writers did, Heller, Kesey, Vonnegut, Kosinski, and Styron expressed...forgotten by those who can take it." 7 As Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest , Vonnegut...
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The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction

Book by Barbara Lounsberry; Greenwood Press, 1990

Subjects:

American Prose Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Fiction, Journalism--United States--History--20th Century, Nonfiction Novel--History And Criticism, Reportage Literature, American--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

The Art of Fact is the first comprehensive examination of five of today's most popular and important nonfiction artists: Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee, Joan Didion, and Norman Mailer. This book examines literary nonfiction in the broad context of the prose narrative form and discusses the role ...
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The Art of Fact is the first comprehensive examination of five of today's most popular and important nonfiction artists: Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee, Joan Didion, and Norman Mailer. This book examines literary nonfiction in the broad context of the prose narrative form and discusses the role it plays in the American literary tradition. Drawing from personal interviews with Gay Talese and John McPhee and including new interpretations of the works of Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion and Norman Mailer, The Art of Fact is a timely call for critical appreciation of the artistry of nonfiction and offers valuable insights to both students and fans of contemporary nonfiction.
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The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation

Book by Gregory Stephenson; Southern Illinois University Press, 1990

Subjects:

American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Beat Generation, Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...responded to and were inspired by the Beat Generation. Some notable second generation Beats would include Ed Sanders, Ken Kesey, Ted Berrigan, Emmet Grogan, Bob Dylan, Richard Brautigan, and Richard Farina. Their writings and activities, together...

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Sometimes a Great Notion: Oregon's Instream Flow Experiments

Journal article by Janet Neuman, Anne Squier, Gail Achterman; Environmental Law, Vol. 36, 2006

Subjects:

Streamflow--Protection and preservation, Water rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Water use--Laws, regulations and rules

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...fictional river imagined by writer Ken Kesey, but his description brings to mind any...what makes things look different here. (4) Kesey, who described an iconic Oregon river and...psychedelic experiments on the inside. (6) Kesey was also respectably famous and commercially...
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Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Journal article by Paul Nastu; The Explicator, Vol. 56, 1997

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Bromdens pathologically skewed point of view, which Kesey employs in parts 1 and 2 of the novel. Bromdens...hippity-hopping through our Walt Disney world" (Kesey 62). The cartoon imagery Kesey uses to paint his "Walt Disney world" is evident...
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Tom Wolfe's American Ubermensch: I Am Charlotte Simmons and the Rhetoric of "Manly Courage"

Journal article by Ty Hawkins; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 43, 2007

Subjects:

Authors--Works, I Am Charlotte Simmons (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Masculinity--Portrayals, Wolfe, Tom--Works, Writers--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...follow the circuitous course of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters across...democratization of resources and power. In the text, Kesey clearly fashions himself a new Christ who...Wolfe why he no longer wishes to write, Kesey responds, "Id rather be a lightning rod...
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Fiction and Imagination: How They Affect Public Administration

Journal article by Howard E. Mccurdy; Public Administration Review, Vol. 55, 1995

Subjects:

Public administration--Analysis

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...in her hands (1961; 108). In 1962, Ken Kesey published the most influential statement...winning Hollywood movie. In the story, Kesey pits Randle Patrick McMurphy, assigned...movement to the treatment of the mentally ill. Kesey depicts state-run psychiatric treatment...
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The Indians America Loves to Love and Read: American Indian Identity and Cultural Appropriation

Journal article by Kathryn W. Shanley; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 21, 1997

Subjects:

Indians Of Central America--Periodicals

Collections: Entire Library

...himself and his conscience, author Ken Kesey voices a reluctance to give up his attachment...author and conscience becomes clear when Kesey finally admits to "having never known...passage appears, suggests that the messages Kesey received are an aspect of the American...

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Ken Kesey: Furthur

Magazine article; Whole Earth, Spring 2002

Subjects:

Essays--Excerpts, Kesey, Ken--Works

Collections: Entire Library

Ken Kesey: Furthur Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion...Francisco in early December. We felt the best way we could honor Ken Kesey would be to reprint some of his most memorable contributions to our...
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Still Crazy after All These Years: Forty Years Later, Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Keeps Fighting the Powers That Be

Magazine article by David Bowman; Book, March 2002

Subjects:

Authors--Conduct of life, Kesey, Ken--Authorship, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Book)--Authorship

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Bowman ON NOVEMBER 10 LAST YEAR, KEN KESEY, THE LEADER OF THE Merry Pranksters, pulled...and the hippie bacchanal of the 60s. Kesey wrote the book in 1959, while working as...though, the process started earlier, when Kesey, a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford...
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The Tripster in Wolfe's Clothing: Jack Shafer on Tom Wolfe's the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and the Underappreciated Art of Dissecting Cultural Trends

Magazine article by Jack Shafer; Columbia Journalism Review, Vol. 44, March 2006

Subjects:

Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Kesey, Ken--Portrayals, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Wolfe, Tom--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Criticism and interpretation

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...the second sentence of his book about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, The Electric...feathered, medallioned, and head-banded crew of Kesey associates on board with him. Wolfe sustains...Harvester school bus, down to Mexico, where Kesey skedaddled to escape prosecution for possession...
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So Brave, Young, and Handsome

Magazine article by Brian Doyle; The Christian Century, Vol. 125, October 21, 2008

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, So Brave, Young and Handsome (Novel)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Isnt one superb book enough? Razzing Frank McCourt for making cheerful, thin books that arent Angelas Ashes and ragging Ken Kesey for all the later muck that wasnt One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest--isnt that unfair? Very fine books are rare birds; why expect...
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Life below Zero

Magazine article by David Kipen; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, April 2003

Collections: Entire Library

...derivative bunch, borrowing their name--Drop City--from a more famous commune in Colorado, and self-consciously invoking Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they hit the highway. Half of Boyles snidely amusing joke is that for all their thirst after the...

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Ken Kesey Novel Next Selection for Book Group

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), December 4, 2005

Subjects:

Kesey, Ken

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Ken Kesey Novel Next Selection for Book Group...inclusion in a compendium of comments about the Kesey book that will appear in a Second Sunday...Whats the next book? ``Last Go Round by Ken Kesey with Ken Babbs (Penguin Books, 272 pages...
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Club Mixed on Kesey Western

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), January 8, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Club Mixed on Kesey Western. Byline: Karen McCowan The...biscuits and cobbler set the scene for Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs 1994 fictionalized account...based on his name, and nobody knew him ... Kesey tried to pull it all together at the very...
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Kesey Letters Flowed Freely in Early 1970s

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 12, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Kesey Letters Flowed Freely in Early 1970s. Byline: The Register-Guard The Register-Guard has had many prolific and well...Tom McCall and Bob Straub. But of all the letter-writers over the years, one stands out above the rest. His name was Ken Kesey, and these are some excerpts from his letter-writing heyday, between 1971 and 1973, when the famed Pleasant Hill author...
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Wheaton Drama to Stage Gritty Kesey Tale

Newspaper article by Ann Piccininni; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 2, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Wheaton Drama to Stage Gritty Kesey Tale. by Ann Piccininni Byline: Ann Piccininni Daily Herald...intermission. The script, adapted by Dale Wasserman from the Ken Kesey novel, involves strong themes and language, Young said, making it...
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Kesey's Kitsch a Window to the Past

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May 30, 2004

Subjects:

Kesey, Ken

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...in Pleasant Hill, the already famous Ken Kesey served a six-month jail sentence in California for possession of marijuana. Kesey had previously guaranteed his place in...Acid Test." And he got busted for pot. Kesey passed his jail time making drawings and...

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Kesey, Ken Elton

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

KESEY, KEN ELTON 1935 2001, American novelist and counterculture figure, b. La Junta, Colo.; grad. Univ. of Oregon (1957), Stanford...
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Grateful Dead, The

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...1950 . One of the formative acid-rock bands, the Grateful Dead became known in San Francisco as the house band for author Ken Kesey s LSD "Acid Tests." They altered rock music by incorporating into their sound elements of country music, bluegrass, and blues...
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Gaddis, William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and William Gaddis (1989); E. B. Safer, The Contemporary American Comic Epic: The Novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey (1988); J. Johnston, Carnival of Repetition (1989); G. Comnes, The Ethics of Indeterminacy in the Novels of William Gaddis...

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