English Literature. Vol. 8 - Dicembre 2021

David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 / Children’s Literature and Political Correctness

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. Table of Contents: Section 1. David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Turns 25 Hidden Gems Unexpectedly Poetic Lines Easily Overlooked (?) in Infinite Jest’s Voluminous Flow Mary Shapiro “I Am in Here”: A Comparative Reading of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis Allard den Dulk Infinite Jest’s Voice(s) Notes for an (Audible) Map Adriano Ardovino Pia Masiero Memories of the Limbaugh Administration 1990s Politics, Conservative Media, and Infinite Jest as a Novel of Radio Jeffrey Severs The Triumph of the Will of Athletes in Infinite Jest James Redgate Wallace After Postmodernism (Again): Metamodernism, Tone, Tennis Timotheus Vermeulen Section 2. Children’s Literature and Political Correctness Transgression vs the Politically Correct: Phases and Faces of a Core Category in Children’s Literature Francesca Orestano Forbidden Words: Language Control and Victorian Political Correctness in Dickens and Carroll Galia Benziman The Blue Fairy and Wendy Incest, Sacrifice or Feminine Empowerment? Déborah Lévy-Bertherat The Politically Incorrect and Its Limits in Late Twentieth-Century Youth Literature Rome, l’Enfer by Malika Ferdjoukh Sylvie Servoise Children’s Sexualisation and Toys Barbie Doll as a Sexual Token in Sarah Strohmeyer’s Barbie Unbound Beatrice Moja John Boyne’s Representation of the Shoah in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: A Paradigm of Transgression and Linguistic Uncertainties Marco Canani

English Literature

n. 8 (2021)

Venezia

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