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

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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08 | Published March 16, 2022 | Language en, it

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