Bøger af M. Wainwright

Maddie is a young girl who struggles with the fact that people seem to have a problem with either the texture of her hair or the color of her skin. Guided by her mother, she goes on a search of her family history in America. She found her ancestors not only held the answers to the texture of her hair, but also the reason her friends ridiculed her physical features. She learned through adversity how to embrace and celebrate her hair as well as her culture.

This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos Passos, and William Faulkner.

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.

Displaying a wide range of knowledge and interpretive skill, Darwin and Faulkner's Novels reexamines the fiction of the great twentieth century American author from the interdisciplinary perspective of sociobiology.