"No Sorcery": Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen's Gambit.
The article discusses the novel Queen's Gambit examines the sources of excellence in creative work and describes a practice for organizing a durable selfhood. It argues Beth Harmon character allegorical correspondences between chess and other forms of artistic and intellectual endeavor. It mentions...
| Publicado en: | Texas Studies in Literature & Language Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 1 - 31 |
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University of Texas Press
Fall2022
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| Sumario: | The article discusses the novel Queen's Gambit examines the sources of excellence in creative work and describes a practice for organizing a durable selfhood. It argues Beth Harmon character allegorical correspondences between chess and other forms of artistic and intellectual endeavor. It mentions that learning to play chess, Beth develops a capacity to live an ethical life in a hostile world. |
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