Relays
literature as an epoch of the postal system
by Bernhard Siegert
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.
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Relays: literature as an epoch of the postal system
1999, Stanford University Press
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Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System (Writing Science)
June 1, 1999, Stanford University Press
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in English
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Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System (Writing Science)
June 1, 1999, Stanford University Press
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in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-325).
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"After he had spent a lifetime writing letters and piling up grievance upon grievance, the moment came when the words ceased lamenting in order to become "generally instructive" remarks-when the love letters stopped in order to make room for a theory of the postal system."
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