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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230338607
• ISBN13: 9780230338609
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"