Faulkner's Gambit: Chess and Literature

By Michael Wainwright

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349341630
• ISBN13: 9781349341634
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"