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