{"id":207129,"date":"2019-10-22T15:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/?p=207129"},"modified":"2019-10-31T14:43:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T18:43:13","slug":"new-essay-by-professor-jeff-gonzalez-analyzes-use-of-walt-whitman-by-contemporary-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/2019\/10\/22\/new-essay-by-professor-jeff-gonzalez-analyzes-use-of-walt-whitman-by-contemporary-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Essay by Professor Jeff Gonzalez Analyzes Use of Walt Whitman by Contemporary Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jeff Gonzalez\u2019s new essay, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/736096\">Great Gray Poet or Great Gray Fool? Queries of Whitman\u2019s Legacy by Chris Adrian, Sherman Alexie, Andrea Dworkin, and Michael Cunningham<\/a>,\u201d appears in the latest issue of <em>College Literature<\/em>, vol. 46 no. 4, 2019, p. 829-859.<\/p>\n<p>The article, says Dr.Gonzalez, \u201canalyzes counterintuitive uses of Walt Whitman by four contemporary US writers. Chris Adrian\u2019s Gob\u2019s Grief, Sherman Alexie\u2019s \u201cDefending Walt Whitman,\u201d Andrea Dworkin\u2019s Mercy, and Michael Cunningham\u2019s Specimen Days break from common practice by displaying ambivalence or hostility toward Whitman, questioning his symbolic legacy rather than claiming heritage with him, \u2026 demonstrating important tensions within the contemporary US\u2019s self-conception.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jeff Gonzalez\u2019s new essay, \u201cGreat Gray Poet or Great Gray Fool? Queries of Whitman\u2019s Legacy by Chris Adrian, Sherman Alexie, Andrea Dworkin, and Michael Cunningham,\u201d appears in the latest issue of College Literature, vol. 46 no. 4, 2019, p. 829-859. The article, says Dr.Gonzalez, \u201canalyzes counterintuitive uses of Walt Whitman by four contemporary US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":207130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-57_english-department","category-7_homepage-news-and-events","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207131,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207129\/revisions\/207131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}