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'This is an assured and highly original study of one of William Faulkner's most neglected works. Exposing the nineteenth-century chess master from New Orleans Paul Morphy as a key source of inspiration for Faulkner's conception of Gavin Stevens, Wainwright argues successfully for a reassessment of 'Knight's Gambit' as a key text in our understanding of the novelist's personal accommodation of postmodernism. At the same time, he provides a range of historically and theoretically informed insights into the engagement of twentieth-century literature with structuralist and poststructuralist thinking as well into as the psychology of chess as a game. My hat goes off to him.' David Rogers, Head of School of Humanities, Kingston University
'This study fills a critical absence in Faulkner studies and brings to that gap a fresh, innovative, and verifiable approach . . . Wainwright enters entirely new territory with this study . . . I recommend it highly.' - Joseph Urgo, Professor of English and President, St. Mary's College of Maryland
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Book Title: Faulkner’s Gambit
Book Subtitle: Chess and Literature
Authors: Michael Wainwright
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137015983
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Michael Wainwright 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-33860-9Published: 07 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34163-4Published: 07 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01598-3Published: 14 December 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 222
Topics: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology