Faulkner's Gambit [electronic resource] : Chess and Literature /
Wainwright, M.author.
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.
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Cover; Faulkner's Gambit: Chess and Literature; Contents; Chapter 1: Before Morphosis; Chapter 2: Nascent Morphosis; Chapter 3: Continued Morphosis; Chapter 4: Inside Morphosis; Chapter 5: Within Morphosis; Chapter 6: Subsumed Morphosis; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 1857-1913.
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.
Anthropology.