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: Hardcover
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780804732369
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature And Society; Modern Literature - History And Criticism; Postal service; Letters; Literary Collections / Letters; History; General; History and criticism; Literature, Modern
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.