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