The pursuit of the American Dream, supposedly shaped by the edenic promises of the American land, has engaged our writers from the beginning, and much of our literature has come out of the national literary experience thus expressed. This collection of nineteen original, unpublished essays written for this book is particularly relevant today, when our col lective field of vision seems obscured, and when the American Dream seems to have become a clich�, symbolic of the Dream defunct. The nineteen critics here presented ...
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The pursuit of the American Dream, supposedly shaped by the edenic promises of the American land, has engaged our writers from the beginning, and much of our literature has come out of the national literary experience thus expressed. This collection of nineteen original, unpublished essays written for this book is particularly relevant today, when our col lective field of vision seems obscured, and when the American Dream seems to have become a clich�, symbolic of the Dream defunct. The nineteen critics here presented include, among others, Leslie Fiedler, Oscar Cargill, Maxwell Geismar, Jules Chametzky, Louis Filler, and Ihab Hassan. Most of them seem to agree with the view expressed by the majority of our best creative writers: that in pursuing the American Dream, America has created a nightmare. Taken together, the nineteen essays provide a comprehensive view of American literature, past and present, as it has dealt with the Dream; but the emphasis is on modern works and present social, cultural, and political problems--poverty, war, and racism. Ten of the essays focus on such key works as Herman Melville's "The Two Temples," F. Scott Fitz gerald's The Great Gatsby , William Faulkner's "The Bear," Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again , Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man , Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, and Norman Mailer's Why Are We in Vietnam?
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