Relays

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