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