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