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