{"id":207664,"date":"2019-10-22T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=207664"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:44:04","slug":"new-essay-by-professor-jeff-gonzalez-analyzes-use-of-walt-whitman-by-contemporary-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/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&#8217;s new essay, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/736096\">Great Gray Poet or Great Gray Fool? Queries of Whitman&#8217;s Legacy by Chris Adrian, Sherman Alexie, Andrea Dworkin, and Michael Cunningham<\/a>,&#8221; 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, &#8220;analyzes counterintuitive uses of Walt Whitman by four contemporary US writers. Chris Adrian&#8217;s Gob&#8217;s Grief, Sherman Alexie&#8217;s &#8220;Defending Walt Whitman,&#8221; Andrea Dworkin&#8217;s Mercy, and Michael Cunningham&#8217;s Specimen Days break from common practice by displaying ambivalence or hostility toward Whitman, questioning his symbolic legacy rather than claiming heritage with him, &#8230; demonstrating important tensions within the contemporary US&#8217;s self-conception.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jeff Gonzalez&#8217;s new essay, &#8220;Great Gray Poet or Great Gray Fool? Queries of Whitman&#8217;s Legacy by Chris Adrian, Sherman Alexie, Andrea Dworkin, and Michael Cunningham,&#8221; appears in the latest issue of College Literature, vol. 46 no. 4, 2019, p. 829-859. The article, says Dr.Gonzalez, &#8220;analyzes counterintuitive uses of Walt Whitman by four contemporary US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":207665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","category-faculty-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207666,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207664\/revisions\/207666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}