Preface
Introduction
Chapter I Saul Bellow and the Poetics of Ephebism
1. The Young and Gerontic Images: Binary Characterization in The Adventures of Augie March
2. Ephebism. Looking for the Elusive Truth in Henderson the Rain King
3. Subverting the Name of the Father : Pathological Culture in Herzog
Chapter II Philip Roth and the Anatomy of American Culturopathology
1. Individualist Terrorism or Terrorist Individualism: Paranoia as the American National Character in The Plot Against America
2. Democratic Terrorism or Terrorist Democracy: Conspiracism as the American Cultural Identity in The Plot Against America
3. Universalist Terrorism and Terrorist Universalism: Mass Hysteria as the American Communal Behavior in The Plot Against America
Chapter III Don DeLillo and Cultural Pathology of Late Capitalism
1. Sovereign Interpolation and Social Paranoia: Social Mechanism of Cultural Pathology in The Names
2. Cultural Dysfunction and Collective X-Syndromes: Psycho-Mechanism of Cultural Pathology in White Noise
3. Empowerment and Cultural Aphasia: Signification Dysfunction in Libra
4. Subjective Resistance and Critique of Dominant Power: Towards a Cultural Therapy in Mao II
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index