Edizioni Ca' Foscari

« previous issue | next issue »

739 views

1556 download

Monographic journal issue
open access peer reviewed

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

VIEW PDF DOWNLOAD PDF

Language: it, en

Published: March 16, 2022

abstract

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.

Keywords

Identity • Franz Kafka • Empowerment • Madame Psychosis • Pinocchio • Stylistics • French youth literature • Politically correct • Post-irony • Charles Dickens • Offence • Acknowledgment • Children’s literature • Through the Looking Glass • Metamodernism • Fascism • Hard Times • Infinite Jest • Cultural memory • Role of literature • Censorship • Political correctness • Shoah • Sexual violence • Discourse studies • Linguistic criticism • David Foster Wallace • Gender • Narrator • Immoralism and amoralism • Alienation • Voice • Female education • The Metamorphosis • Malika Ferdjoukh • Barbie doll • Alice in Wonderland • Gender stereotypes • Lewis Carroll • Peter Pan • Lesbianism • Dualism • Poetic language • Tennis • Joelle van Dyne • Children’s sexualisation • Motherhood • Descartes • Humanism • Art • Self-becoming • <em>Infinite Jest</em> • Communication • Cognition

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

Copyright: © 2021 This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.