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David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness
Language: en, it
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.
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Discourse studies • Alienation • Joelle van Dyne • Barbie doll • Humanism • Politically correct • Peter Pan • Female education • Voice • Descartes • Stylistics • Censorship • Children’s literature • Gender • Political correctness • Communication • Pinocchio • Dualism • Acknowledgment • Children’s sexualisation • <em>Infinite Jest</em> • Empowerment • Franz Kafka • Motherhood • Metamodernism • Post-irony • Sexual violence • Immoralism and amoralism • Malika Ferdjoukh • Gender stereotypes • Hard Times • Narrator • Cultural memory • Linguistic criticism • Self-becoming • Cognition • Lesbianism • French youth literature • Fascism • Madame Psychosis • Offence • Lewis Carroll • Charles Dickens • Art • Infinite Jest • Tennis • Role of literature • Through the Looking Glass • Alice in Wonderland • Shoah • Identity • Poetic language • The Metamorphosis • David Foster Wallace
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Section 1. David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25
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Section 2. Children’s Literature and Political Correctness
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