The WreckIgnitions Read. heroic

[Mark Kohut]

"What is a hero?"  comes up twice I think    @p.28....
 
Campbell's supplanting Hero with a Thousand Faces was published the same year 
Gaddis supposedly finished this book so
 
if Gaddis followed up on some of Eliot's erudition because of his love for 
Eliot, then this is probalby a source...
Lord Raglan (1936/2003). The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama. 
Mineola, NY: Dover Publications.  

 
And as that old radical Bertolt Brecht said: Sad the land that needs 
heros.......