{"id":1191,"date":"2018-01-23T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:43:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T22:43:48","slug":"instructor-publishes-article-on-jay-gatsby-failed-intellectual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2018\/01\/23\/instructor-publishes-article-on-jay-gatsby-failed-intellectual\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructor Publishes Article on \u201cJay Gatsby, Failed Intellectual&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dianne E. Bechtel\u2019s article, \u201cJay Gatsby, Failed Intellectual: F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s Trope for Social Stratification,\u201d appears in the January 2018 issue of the\u00a0<em>F. Scott Fitzgerald Review<\/em>, published by the Penn State University Press. The article explores F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s drawing of Jay Gatsby in conjunction with Pierre Bourdieu\u2019s theory of the\u00a0<em>habitus<\/em>. Bechtel explains the social and economic realities within the author that make up character behavior and plot construction in\u00a0<em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>. Economically inculcated factors dictate the outcomes for all of Fitzgerald\u2019s characters, and figure prominently most especially Jay Gatsby\u2019s death. The article argues that the social structures and relevant practices of economic status in literature and everyday life are products of inculcated yet unperceived socio-political structures and substructures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dianne E. Bechtel\u2019s article, \u201cJay Gatsby, Failed Intellectual: F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s Trope for Social Stratification,\u201d appears in the January 2018 issue of the\u00a0F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, published by the Penn State University Press. The article explores F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s drawing of Jay Gatsby in conjunction with Pierre Bourdieu\u2019s theory of the\u00a0habitus. Bechtel explains the social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}