Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System

by Bernhard Siegert

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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"

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Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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