Faulkner’s Gambit: Chess and Literature

Wainwright, M.

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-12-07

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230338609

DOI: 10.1057/9781137015983

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 222