Relays
Subtitle: literature as an epoch of the postal system
By: Bernhard Siegert ; translated by Kevin Repp.
Series: Writing science
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Postal service -- History
Description: This book examines how one aspect of the social and technological situation of literature - namely, the postal system - determined how literature was produced and what was produced within literature. Language itself has the structure of a relay, where what is transmitted depends on a prior withholding. The social arrangements and technologies for achieving this transmission thus have had a particularly powerful impact on the imagination of literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-325).