Relays : literature as an epoch of the postal system
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Relays : literature as an epoch of the postal system
（Writing science）
Stanford University Press, 1999
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Relais : Geschicke der Literatur als Epoche der Post, 1751-1913
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Translation of: Relais : Geschicke der Literatur als Epoche der Post, 1751-1913
Originally published: Berlin : Brinkmann & Bose, 1993
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-325) and index
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ISBN 9780804732369
内容説明
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.
目次
- List of tables and figures
- Introduction
- 1. An epoch of the postal system
- Part I. The Logistics of the Poet's Dream: 2. On time (registered letterI)
- 3. Gellert's coup: folding the private letter
- 4. Post day in Wahlheim
- 5. Set the controls for the heart of the night
- 6. Postage
- 7. Goethe's postal empire
- 8. The timbre of a calling (attunement)
- 9. The logistics of the poet's dream: kleist
- Part II. On The Way To New Empires 1840-1900: 10. System time (registered letter II)
- 11. Postage one penny: Rowland Hill's post office reform
- 12. The standards of writing
- 13. Hill/Babbage/Bentham: the mechanical alliance of 1827
- 14. Mail in 1855: a misuse of love letters
- 15. The worl postal system, or the end of the world
- 16. The postcard
- 17. The telegraph: land and sea
- 18. The virgin machine
- Part III. Mail Beyond Human Communication: 19. Typewriter and carbon paper
- 20. The poet's matter in extremis
- 21. Mail, or the impossibility of writting letters
- 22. In the presence of noise
- Notes
- Bibliography.
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: pbk ISBN 9780804732383
内容説明
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.
目次
List of tables and figures Introduction 1. An epoch of the postal system Part I. The Logistics of the Poet's Dream: 2. On time (registered letterI) 3. Gellert's coup: folding the private letter 4. Post day in Wahlheim 5. Set the controls for the heart of the night 6. Postage 7. Goethe's postal empire 8. The timbre of a calling (attunement) 9. The logistics of the poet's dream: kleist Part II. On The Way To New Empires 1840-1900: 10. System time (registered letter II) 11. Postage one penny: Rowland Hill's post office reform 12. The standards of writing 13. Hill/Babbage/Bentham: the mechanical alliance of 1827 14. Mail in 1855: a misuse of love letters 15. The worl postal system, or the end of the world 16. The postcard 17. The telegraph: land and sea 18. The virgin machine Part III. Mail Beyond Human Communication: 19. Typewriter and carbon paper 20. The poet's matter in extremis 21. Mail, or the impossibility of writting letters 22. In the presence of noise Notes Bibliography.
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