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