Presents critical essays on Ken Kesey's 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest' and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-182) and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest and the comic strip / Terry G. Sherwood -- Edge city (Ken Kesey) / Tony Tanner -- The grail knight arrives: Ken Kesey, One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Raymond M. Olderman -- Christ in the cuckoo's nest: or, the gospel according to Ken Kesey / Bruce E. Wallis -- Salvation through laughter: Ken Kesey & the cuckoo's nest / Stephen L. Tanner -- Hustling to some purpose: Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest / John Wilson Foster -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest: "It's true even if it didn't happen" / Barry H. Leeds -- The plucky love song of Chief "Broom" Bromden: poetry from the fragments / M. Gilbert Porter -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Stephen L. Tanner -- Musical messages in Kesey's novels: you can tell a man by the song that he sings / M. Gilbert Porter -- The carnival artist in the cuckoo's nest / Benjamin Goluboff.