Faulkner''s Gambit : Chess and Literature
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0230338607
ISBN-13
9780230338609
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 7th, 2011
Print length
222 Pages
Weight
390 grams
Dimensions
22.20 x 14.40 x 2.00 cms
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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.
In an interdisciplinary approach that combines interpretive theory with the sociology and psychology of games, Faulkner''s Gambit examines the chess structures, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner''s only novella, situating this critically neglected work within both a historical and literary context. This study traces the rise to prominence of chess in America from its promotion as a self-actualizing and socially beneficial tool by Benjamin Franklin to its prebellum height with the legendary exploits of the nineteenth-century Louisianan maestro Paul Morphy.
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