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