{"title":"“No Sorcery”: Chess, Artistic Sensibility, and Subjective Development in The Queen’s Gambit","authors":"P. H. Schmidt","doi":"10.7560/tsll64305","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this essay, I claim that The Queen’s Gambit examines the sources of excellence in creative work and describes a practice for organizing a durable selfhood. Following the rise of an orphan (Beth Harmon) in the world of 1960s international chess, the novel suggests, I argue, allegorical correspondences between chess and other forms of artistic and intellectual endeavor. I further contend that in learning to play chess, Beth develops a capacity to live an ethical life in a hostile world.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"309 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64305","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:In this essay, I claim that The Queen’s Gambit examines the sources of excellence in creative work and describes a practice for organizing a durable selfhood. Following the rise of an orphan (Beth Harmon) in the world of 1960s international chess, the novel suggests, I argue, allegorical correspondences between chess and other forms of artistic and intellectual endeavor. I further contend that in learning to play chess, Beth develops a capacity to live an ethical life in a hostile world.
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