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