Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System

by Bernhard Siegert

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804732388
• ISBN13: 9780804732383
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"