The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction: The Works of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo - Stephanie S. Halldorson

This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. 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.”