David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 | Children’s Literature and Political Correctness
Lingua: en, it
Pubblicato: 16 Marzo 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.
David Foster Wallace • Madame Psychosis • Poetic language • Charles Dickens • Pinocchio • Motherhood • Voice • Cognition • Narrator • Discourse studies • Offence • Politically correct • Descartes • Identity • Infinite Jest • Role of literature • Self-becoming • Stylistics • Joelle van Dyne • Sexual violence • Gender • Through the Looking Glass • Dualism • Metamodernism • Peter Pan • Gender stereotypes • Communication • Hard Times • Franz Kafka • Empowerment • Barbie doll • Political correctness • Lesbianism • Alice in Wonderland • Children’s literature • Art • Children’s sexualisation • Lewis Carroll • Shoah • Post-irony • Tennis • Fascism • Female education • Humanism • Censorship • Acknowledgment • <em>Infinite Jest</em> • Cultural memory • French youth literature • Linguistic criticism • The Metamorphosis • Immoralism and amoralism • Malika Ferdjoukh • Alienation