... also carry forward the American literary traditions of the Transcendentalists and the Beats as well as the frontier humor and vernacular style established by Mark Twain. Although first published in 1962, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest still enjoys a wide readership. Kesey's "hippie" reputation and the book's unusual expression of anti-Establishment themes, ranging from rebellion against conformity ... into a desire for action" (Telgen 222). "Nurse Ratched speaks for the fixed pattern, the unbreakable routine, the submission of the individual will to mechanical, humorless co...

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