The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction: The Works of Saul Bellow and Don Delillo (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403983886)

This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piece to the "how" of the hero as written by Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell over half a century ago. The novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is heroic about nymphomaniacs, Holocaust survivors, spurious academics, cult followers, terrorists, celebrities, photographers and writers of novels who all attempt to claim the right to be "hero."

Author: S. Halldorson
ISBN-10: 1403983887
ISBN-13: 9781403983886
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/09/2008
Pages: 223
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d