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David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness

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Published: March 16, 2022

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Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s most famous book, published on February 1, 1996, turned 25 in 2021. In its first section, this special issue celebrates the novel’s silver anniversary with six fresh re-readings by prominent Wallace readers. The second section deals with the theme ‘transgression vs the politically correct’ in children’s literature. 

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08

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Section 1. David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25
Hidden Gems
Unexpectedly Poetic Lines Easily Overlooked (?) in Infinite Jest’s Voluminous Flow
Mary Shapiro   
March 16, 2022
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“I Am in Here”: A Comparative Reading of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
Allard den Dulk   
March 16, 2022
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Infinite Jest’s Voice(s)
Notes for an (Audible) Map
Pia Masiero    Adriano Ardovino   
March 16, 2022
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Memories of the Limbaugh Administration
1990s Politics, Conservative Media, and Infinite Jest as a Novel of Radio
Jeffrey Severs   
March 16, 2022
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The Triumph of the Will of Athletes in Infinite Jest
Jamie Redgate   
March 16, 2022
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Wallace After Postmodernism (Again): Metamodernism, Tone, Tennis
Timotheus Vermeulen   
March 16, 2022
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Section 2. Children’s Literature and Political Correctness
Transgression vs the Politically Correct: Phases and Faces of a Core Category in Children’s Literature
Francesca Orestano   
March 16, 2022
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Forbidden Words: Language Control and Victorian Political Correctness in Dickens and Carroll
Galia Benziman   
March 16, 2022
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The Blue Fairy and Wendy
Incest, Sacrifice or Feminine Empowerment?
Déborah Lévy-Bertherat   
March 16, 2022
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The Politically Incorrect and Its Limits in Late Twentieth-Century Youth Literature
Rome, l’Enfer by Malika Ferdjoukh
Sylvie Servoise   
March 16, 2022
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Children’s Sexualisation and Toys
Barbie Doll as a Sexual Token in Sarah Strohmeyer’s Barbie Unbound
Beatrice Moja   
March 16, 2022
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John Boyne’s Representation of the Shoah in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: A Paradigm of Transgression and Linguistic Uncertainties
Marco Canani   
March 16, 2022
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