Yawping
Adam Gopnik, 23 May 1996
The Scandal of Pleasure
by Wendy Steiner.
Chicago, 263 pp., £19.95, January 1996,0 226 77223 3 Show More
by Wendy Steiner.
Chicago, 263 pp., £19.95, January 1996,
“... because the pleasure produced by the free play of the imagination is intrinsically subversive. As Frank Sinatra puts it, ‘Imagination is silly, it goes around willy-nilly.’ For Steiner, it is the willy-nilliness of imagination that makes it dangerous, and our readiness to indulge that willy-nilliness that makes art matter. Steiner believes, to use an ... ”