Introduction Chapter 1 Formation of Bellow's Jewish Consciousness 1.1 Cultural Sources of Bellow's Jewish Consciousness 1.1.1 Jewish Culture 1.1.2 American Culture 1.2 Cultural Mechanism of Bellow's Jewish Consciousness Chapter 2 Concern for the Jewish Intellectuals: Core of Bellow's Jewish Consciousness 2.1 Bellow's Jewish Life Experience in Herzog 2.2 Moses Elkanah Herzog: a Modern Parody of the Moses of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible 2.3 Jewishness of Herzog Representing the Kernels of Bellow's Jewish Consciousness 2.3.1 Marginality 2.3.2 Alienation 2.3.3 Homeland-quest 2.3.4 Self-identification Chapter 3 Concern for the Humanity: Sublimation of Bellow's Jewish Consciousness 3.1 Moses Elkanah Herzog: a Person Fighting for Survival 3.2 Cosmopolitan Quality and Vision in Herzog 3.2.1 Global Marginality 3.2.2 Global Alienation 3.2.3 In Quest of an Everlasting Human Soul 3.2.4 In Pursuit of an Everlasting Human Identity 3.3 Toward Humanism-oriented Cosmopolitanism Conclusion Appendix 1 Saul Bellow's Nobel Lecture Appendix 2 Saul Bellow's Banquet Speech Appendix 3 Towards a Poetics of Culture (excerpt) Acknowledgements References Index