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"Aiming to change how we think about the cult of the individual - that is, about what the hero, the anti-hero, and the heroic can mean in the United States of our day - Halldorson is not afraid to tackle big topics (and they don t come much bigger than this). This intellectually daring study combines astute historical contextualizing and canny theoretical re-conceptualizing with brilliant close readings of texts by two major American novelists." - Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto
"This book presentsa serious, substantive discussiononBellow and DeLillo and the subject of heroes. Halldorsonoffersperhaps the strongest and most provocative reading of DeLillo s Mao II that I ve encountered. Her assertions that the hero is always and only built upon a fictional narrative, and that the hero depends on the existence of the non-hero, even though there s no place for the non-hero in America, areintriguing andconvincingly supported." - Curtis Yehnert, Western Oregon University
"Halldorson s original and innovative construction of a heroics of reading is a valuable contribution to the dramatic revival of the ethical turn in literary and theoretical inquiry. Halldorson is also a masterful reader of community and identity in DeLillo and Bellow, one who is richly attuned to their complex narrative investments." - Thomas Carmichael, University of Western Ontario
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Book Title: The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction
Book Subtitle: The Works of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo
Authors: Stephanie S. Halldorson
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230609785
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8388-6Published: 09 April 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53938-3Published: 09 April 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60978-5Published: 09 December 2007
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 223
Topics: North American Literature, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature