John A Barsness, "Ken Kesey' The Hero in Modern Dress,"_ in Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vol 23, No. I, March, pp. 27-33.
Argues that the novel is an updated version of the Western and Its cowboy hero.
Annette Benerl, "The Forces of Fear Kesey's Anatomy of Insanity,"'in Lexet ScientiaVol 13,Nos.1-2,January-June, 1977, pp. 22-26.
Analyzes the novel's connections to fear of woman, fear of the machine, and glorification of the hero.
Robert Boyers, "Porno-Politics," in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, No 376, March, 1968, pp. 36-52.
Examines the novel's attitudes towards sex and the linkages between sexuality and laughter.
Leslie A Fiedler, in his The Return of the Vanishing American, Stein & Day, 1968.
Fiedler's Views On the mythic relationships in Cuckoo's Nest are almost as well-known.....
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