Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wainwright, M

Titel

Faulkner's Gambit: Chess and Literature

Auflage

1st ed.

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 In an interdisciplinary approach that combines interpretive theory with the sociology and psychology of games, Faulkner's Gambitexamines 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. 13 02 Michael Wainwright is a visiting lecturer at Staffordshire University. 19 02 First comprehensive study of Faulkner's A Knights Gambit Looking at the strategy, history, and intricacies of chess in literature adds a new dimension to the literary criticism on Faulkner Uses chess to compare Faulkner's work to Nabokov, McCarthy, and Pynchon 02 02 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. 04 02 Before Morphosis Nascent Morphosis Continued Morphosis Inside Morphosis Within Morphosis Subsumed Morphosis 31 02 The first full-length study of the chess structures, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit