This publication bargains the 1st full-length examine of the chess constructions, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit . Wainwright seems to be on the value of chess as a literary machine and examines the structural analogy drawn among the sport and linguistics via Ferdinand de Saussure.
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