The Collapse of Grand Narratives in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

ISBN-13: 9783841798589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 80 str.

Mongia Besbes

Opis

This book examines how One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is an iconoclastic book. The demise of symbols is portrayed through the collapse of grand narratives. These grand narratives are despotic monolithic discourses that impose a single perspective on the world. A world that kesey dimms as further dehumanized through extensive appeal to technological progress and postbellum scepticism. This postmodern age is best described by Lyotrad's contention that postmodernism is defined by "incredulity towards grand narratives". In this book, Canonic literature, reason, and religion sway under the rising influence of psychedelic fiction, madness and pantheism ushering a new era of counterculture in the mist of crippling conformity.

O autorze

Mongia Besbes was born in Monastir Tunisia. She is an English aggregated teacher in the english department of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sfax (Tunisia). She is a researcher in the field of postmodern American fiction. She is also the writer of several articles on psychedelic fiction, beats culture and trauma studies.