{"product_id":"literature-and-the-telephone-sarah-jackson-9781350269774","title":"Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterature and the Telephone \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the ways that the telephone taps into the operations of reading and writing, opening up our understanding of how, where and why literary communication takes place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAddressing the telephone's complex, multiple and mutating functions, and drawing on recent work by writers and thinkers including Sara Ahmed, Stacy Alaimo, Judith Butler, Nicholas Royle and Eyal Weizman, this open access book considers the linguistic, technical and conceptual disruptions of the literary telephone as well as the poetic and political possibilities of the exchange. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on the telephonic effects of post-war writing by authors such as Mourid Barghouti, Caroline Bergvall, Tom Raworth, Muriel Spark, Ali Smith and Rita Wong, Sarah Jackson proposes that the uncanny logic of the telephone, and its capacity for ordering and disordering the text, speaks to some of the most urgent concerns of our era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExamining topics ranging from surveillance and migration to warfare and electronic waste, Jackson argues that the literary telephone offers new ways of conceiving ethical and creative technological futures, as well as different modes of reading, writing and listening across cultures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Nottingham Trent University.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Jackson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350269778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350269774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d","brand":"Sarah Jackson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48484966891775,"sku":"9781350269774","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5bc66d80-e3a2-412b-9512-0778e46603b0.jpg?v=1778047023","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literature-and-the-telephone-sarah-jackson-9781350269774","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}