The dream metaphor: some ramifications / Robert B. Heilman -- The dream of the new / Leslie A. Fiedler -- Machiavelli for the millions: some notes on power structures / Louis Filler -- The shifting illusion: dream and fact / Maxwell Geismar -- The compulsive design / Irving Malin -- Focus on Herman Melville's "The two temples": the denigration of the American dream / Marvin Fisher -- Focus on Abraham Cahan's The rise of David Levinsky: boats against the current / Jules Chametzky -- Sinclair Lewis and Western humor / James C. Austin -- Focus on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby: the nowhere hero / Richard Lehan -- Focus on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the night / Frank Kinahan -- Focus on William Faulkner's "The bear": Moses and the wilderness / Richard P. Adams -- "History on the side": Henry Miller's American dream / Alan Trachtenberg -- Focus on Thomas Wolfe's You can't go home again: agrarian dream and industrial nightmare / C. Hugh Holman -- Focus on Eugene O'Neill's The iceman cometh: the iceman hath come / Frederic I. Carpenter -- Focus on Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman: the wrong dreams / Chester E. Eisinger -- Choice: ironic alternatives in the world of the contemporary American novel / Alvin Greenberg -- Focus on Ralph Ellison's The invisible man: American nightmare / Allen Guttmann -- Focus on Norman Mailer's Why are we in Vietnam? / Ihab Hassan -- Gift to the world / Oscar Cargill.