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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08 | Pubblicato 16 Marzo 2022 | Lingua en, it

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