"A series of wonderfully apt, economical, and witty readings of texts ranging from Breton's Nadja to writing of the 1980s...Sparklingly interesting analytic and interpretive criticism." (Ross Chambers, author of Room for Maneuver). "Not hubris but the ever self-renewing impulse to play calls new worlds into being." (Nietzsche). Parents and politicians have always taken play seriously. Its formative powers, its focus, its energy, and its ability to signify other things have drawn the attention of writers from Plato and Schiller to Wittgenstein, Nabokov, and Eco. The ease with which an election becomes perceived as a race, a political crisis as a football game, or an argument as a tennis match readily proves how much play means to contemporary life. Just how play confers meaning, however, is best revealed in literature, where meaning is perpetually at stake. "At stake" itself, the risk of...
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