Title: Relays
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: History, History and criticism, Literature, Modern, Modern Literature, Postal service, Science, study and teaching, Literature, modern, history and criticism, Postal service, history
Places: History and criticism
LC classification: PN98.S46 S5413 1999