Title: Faulkner's gambit
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"--
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Chess in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural, Faulkner, william, 1897-1962, Chess, Literary studies: general, Literature, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
People: Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), William Faulkner (1897-1962)