Robert faggen ken kesey biography
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Robert Faggen
An interest in the relationship between literature and science was the beginning of my studies in American literature. I enjoy viewing various aspects of this cultural conflict through the prism of particular authors. I began with a study of Robert Frost and his interest in nineteenth- and twentieth-century science in general and in Darwin in particular. My aim was to locate Frost’s work within an intellectual and cultural context but also, of course, to underscore the subtlety and complexity of his work. I believe that there is much yet to learn about Frost, a poet whose skill and texture has been underestimated, misapprehended, or ignored because he stands far outside traditional critical frameworks. After my first book, Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin (1997), I decided that readers of Frost would benefit from some additional critical discussion from a variety of voices and also from publication of thousands of unpublished letters and journals. Accordingly, I convinced the Frost Estate and Harvard University Press to support me in publishing a multi-volume, definitive edition of The Writings of Robert Frost, for which I am serving as general editor. So far, the first volume, The Notebooks of Robert Frost, which I edited, has been pub
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50 years has passed since the late Ken Kesey's American classic novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest first appeared. It would go on to inspire an Oscar winning film that brought an entirely new perspective on mental health institutions into the mainstream. Kesey scholar and CMC Literature Professor, Robert Faggen was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" recently to discuss this anniversary.
The story is about the terror of a group of mental patients under the strict "care" of an evil hospital administration. NPR's "All things Considered" broadcasted an appreciation that features audio clips from a previous Kesey interview as well as readings from the novel and analysis from Faggen who is currently wrapping up his latest work; Ken Kesey, An American Life.
Listen to it by clicking here. http://www.npr.org/2012/02/01/146210681/keseys-cuckoos-nest-still-flying-at-50
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Ken Kesey
American author and countercultural figure (1935–2001)
Ken Elton Kesey (; Sept 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an Inhabitant novelist, litterateur and countercultural figure. Proscribed considered himself a good deal between picture Beat Reproduction of interpretation 1950s scold the hipsters of rendering 1960s.
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