Faulkner's gambit
Subtitle: chess and literature
By: Michael Wainwright
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780230338609
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Chess in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "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"--