Insanity as Redemption in Contemporary American Fiction: Inmates Running the Asylum

by Barbara Tepa Lupack

Although madness is a popular theme in literature, contemporary American writers use that theme in a new and unfamiliar way, not just to convey the result of an unnerving or infuriating reality but also to comment on its hypocrisies. Barbara Tepa Lupack examines the cultural and literary contexts of five major works of contemporary fiction: Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961), Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813013313
• ISBN13: 9780813013312
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"