The book addresses and interrogates discursive and cultural practices that are (or can be seen
as) related to the well-established if elusive phenomenon known as Political Correctness or PC.
The individual contributors look into PC-related cases within the humanities literature and
the media. Accordingly the publication is divided into three sections: Part I Revisiting the
Issue: History Theory Language examines PC in the contexts of three types of discourse:
historical theoretical and ideological and linguistic. Part II Literary Case Studies offers
examinations of chosen literary works and authors. Part III The Media looks at manifestations
of PC-related issues in film and the popular magazine. Altogether the publication shows a
variety of approaches to the PC phenomenon. The assumption of the editors is that while PC has
indubitably penetrated contemporary culture it continues to stir controversy. This scholarly
debate is a response to what may be described as PC's universal reign.
