| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Preface: Hello, yes? -- Introduction ? Switchboard -- Chapter 1. Queer Lines: Voice and Desire in E. M. Forster, Dana Spiotta and Haruki Murakami -- Chapter 2. Scrambled Messages: Networks of Signification in Patrick Hamilton and Jon McGregor -- Chapter 3. Telepoetics: Interference and Errancy in Frank O'Hara, Tom Raworth and Fady Joudah -- Chapter 4. Secrets: Call and Response in Muriel Spark -- Chapter 5. Listening -- In: Reading Surveillance in Graham Greene, Anna Burns and Will Self -- Chapter 6. Calling without Calling: Mourid Barghouti, Jacques Derrida and 'The International Day of Telephones' -- Chapter 7. Distress Calls: New (Im)mobilities in Behrouz Boochani and Asiya Wadud -- Conclusion: Telefutures: Electronic Waste in Emily St John Mandel and Ling Ma -- Afterword The Long Goodbye -- Bibliography. |
| Summary |
"Taking the 'question of literature' as its starting point, this book addresses the telephone's propensity to mediate but also to interrupt communication, as wel as the ways in which it taps into some of the most urgent concerns of the modern and contemporary age, includilng surveillance, mobility, globalization and the ethics of answerability. In so doing, it provides a fascinating look at how the telephone has been shaping literature and culture from the early twentieth century to the present. Exploring its complex, multiple and mutating functions in literary texts from 1945 to the present day, this book examines the ways that the telephone ignites new conversations between different historical periods, global locations, theoretical perspectives and creative and critical voices, examining issues as from the role of operators to secrecy and information technology to queer conversations and telephones as waste. Although focusing on post-1945 writers such as Will Self, Haruki Murakami, Jon McGregor, Frank O'Hara, Muriel Spark, Graham Greene and Behrouz Boochani, it also touches on work from earlier writers such as Mark Twain, Marcel Proust, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, and Dorothy Sayers. Addressing the reciprocal relationship between telephony and literary language and form, it considers both historical and recent manifestations of the telephone, and its capacity to call across borders, languages and cultures."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily. |
| Local Note |
Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access |
| Subject |
Telephone systems.
|
|
Literature -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
|
|
telephone systems.
|
|
Literature.
|
|
Telephone systems.
|
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
|
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781350269774 |
| ISBN |
9781350259638 online |
|
1350259632 |
|
9781350259621 ePub |
|
1350259624 |
|
9781350269774 softback |
|
9781350259607 hardback |
| Standard No. |
10.5040/9781350259638 doi |
|
