Relays
Subtitle: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System (Writing Science)
Contributors: Kevin Repp (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780804732383
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature, Modern; General; Letters; Literary Collections / Letters; History; Postal service
First sentence: After he had spent a lifetime writing letters and piling up grievance upon grievance, the moment came when the words ceased lamenting in order to become "generally instructive" remarks-when the love letters stopped in order to make room for a theory of the postal system.