Literary Criticism:
- Collaboration in the Writing Classroom: An Interview with Ken Kesey by Carolyn Knox-Quinn from College Composition and Communication, Vol. 41, No. 3, (Oct., 1990).
- Madness and Misogyny in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Daniel J. Vitkus from Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, No. 14, Madness and Civilization, (1994).
- A Defense of Ken Kesey’s “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Janet R. Sutherland from The English Journal, Vol. 61, No. 1, (Jan., 1972).
- Ken Kesey: The Hero in Modern Dress by John A. Barsness from The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vol. 23, No. 1, (Mar., 1969).
- Ken Kesey’s Classroom Corrective, or, How to Free the Cuckoos by Joseph O. Milner from The English Journal, Vol. 64, No. 7, (Oct., 1975).
- The Vanishing American: Identity Crisis in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Elaine Ware from MELUS, Vol. 13, No. 3/4, Varieties of Ethnic Criticism, (Autumn – Winter, 1986).
- Two Novelists of the Absurd: Heller and Kesey by Joseph J. Waldmeir from Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, Vol. 5, No. 3, (Autumn, 1964).
- The Ratched-McMurphy Model Revisited: A Critique of Participatory Development Models, Strategies, and Projects by Sheldon Gellar from Issue: A Journal of Opinion, Vol. 14, (1985).
- Pastoral Convention in Vergil and Kesey by Charles Witke from Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. 1, (Apr., 1966).
- An Introduction to Sociology through Fiction Using Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Hugh F. Lena and Bruce London from Teaching Sociology, Vol. 6, No. 2, (Jan., 1979).
- Blindfolded and Backwards: Promethean and Bemushroomed Heroism in “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Catch-22″ by William Schopf from The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vol. 26, No. 3, (Autumn, 1972).
- The Hipster, the Hero, and the Psychic Frontier in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Thomas H. Fick from Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 43, No. 1/2, (1989).
- “Furthur”: Reflections on Counter-Culture and the Postmodern by Brent Whelan from Cultural Critique, No. 11, (Winter, 1988-1989).
- The Cuckoo Clocks in Kesey’s Nest by James R. Huffman from Modern Language Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, (Spring, 1977).
- The Breasts of Big Nurse: Satire versus Narrative in Kesey’s “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Laszlo K. Géfin from Modern Language Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1, (Winter, 1992).