Faulkner’s Gambit: Chess and Literature

by M. Wainwright

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This book offers the first full-length study of the chess structures, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit . Wainwright looks at the importance of chess as a literary device and examines the structural analogy drawn between the game and linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure.
  • ISBN13 9780230338609
  • Publish Date 7 December 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 222
  • Language English