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Book Description: University of Chicago press. Book Condition: New. New. Bookseller Inventory # 0804732388

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Book Description: STANFORD UNIV PR, 1999. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9780804732383

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Book Description: Stanford University Press, United States, 1999. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 229 x 154 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. 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 as a medium. The book has three parts. The first part reconstructs the postal conditions of classic and Romantic literature: the invention of postage in the seventeenth century, which transformed the postal system into a service meant to be used by the population (instead of by the prince alone); the sexualization of letter writing, which was introduced in the middle of the eighteenth century and changed the reading of a letter into an interpretation of intimate confessions of the soul; and Goethe's turning of this new ontology of the letter into a logistics of literature whereby literary authorship was constructed by means of postal logistics, with the precision of engineering. The second part analyzes nineteenth-century postal innovations that facilitated communication through letters and examines how literary works were able to live off such communication. These innovations included the reform of the post office; the invention of the postage stamp; the Universal Postal Union, which subjected letter writing to an economy of materials and uniform standards; and the telegraph and the telephone, which surpassed literature in terms of speed, economy, and analog-signal processing. In the third part, on the basis of a close reading of Franz Kafka's letters to his typist-fiancee, the author demonstrates how postal logistics of love and authorship have worked in the era of modern postal systems and technical media. Kafka's correspondence is deciphered as a "war of nerves" waged by means of all available techniques and conditions of transmission. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780804732383

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Book Description: Stanford Univ Pr, 1999. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 325 pages. 9.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # x-0804732388

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. 152mm x 20mm x 228mm. 340 pages. 0.476. Bookseller Inventory # 9780804732383

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. 152mm x 20mm x 228mm. 340 pages. 0.476. Bookseller Inventory # 9780804732383

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