Faulkner’s gambit: chess and literature
Auteur :
Wainwright, M.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349341634
Date de publication :
7 déc. 2011
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.