Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place

by Sarah Jackson

Book Overview

Literature and the Telephone explores the ways that the telephone taps into the operations of reading and writing, opening up our understanding of how, where and why literary communication takes place.

Addressing the telephone's complex, multiple and mutating functions, and drawing on recent work by writers and thinkers including Sara Ahmed, Stacy Alaimo, Judith Butler, Nicholas Royle and Eyal Weizman, this open access book considers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350269778
• ISBN13: 9781350269774
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"