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  title info:
    title: Hotel modernisms
  name:
    name part: Despotopoulou, Anna
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Mētsē, Euterpē
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first half of the twentieth century. As a trope for social and cultural mobility, transitory and precarious modes of living and experiences of personal and political transformation, the hotel space in modernist writing complicates binaries such as public and private, risk and rootedness, convention and experimentation. It is also a prime location for modernist production and the cross-fertilization of heterogeneous, inter- and trans- literary, cultural, national and affective modes. The study of the hotel in authors such as E.M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, Kay Boyle and Joseph Roth reveals the ways in which the hotel nuances the notions of mobilities, networks and communities in terms of gender, nation, and class. Whereas Mary Butts, Djuna Barnes, Anaïs Nin and Denton Welch negotiate affective and bodily states which arise from the alienation experienced at liminal hotel spaces and which lead to new poetics of space, Vicki Baum, Georg Lukács, James Joyce and Elizabeth Bishop explore the sociopolitical and cultural conflicts which are manifested in and by the hotel. This volume invites us to think of "hotel modernisms" as situated in or enabled by this dynamic space. Including chapters which traverse the boundaries of nation and class, it regards the hotel as the transcultural space of modernity par excellence.
  table of contents: Hotel trouble / Vassiliki Kolocotroni -- "Blank, blond horror" : the hotel as medical facility / Robbie Moore -- Hotel performance and its remains : Jean Cocteau and Mary Butts at the welcome / Joel Hawkes -- Performing belonging in early twentieth-century literary hotels and the case of rich Americans / Bettina Matthias -- "No longer a hotel" : colonial decadence in Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet / Athanasios Dimakis -- Landslide at the Pension Bertolini : anti-tourism versus groundless transculturalism in E.M. Forster's A room with a view / Shawna Ross -- H.D.'S hotel visions / Polly Hember -- Carnivorous flowers and poisoned webs : surrealist experimentation in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Anaïs Nin's House of incest / Josie Cray -- "Found his anxiety frothing" : Denton Welch's In youth is pleasure and the hotel as camp allegory / Allan Pero -- "[T]he hotel story he made up" : hotel life, death, and work in James Joyce's Ulysses / Emma Short -- Life and work in interwar "cathedrals of modernity" / Ulrike Zitzlsperger -- White women and cheap hotels / Tyler T. Schmidt -- Rota Moderna : Vortex Force in Viennese Hotel lobbies / Rajesh Heynickx -- Grand hotel theory / John Hoffmann -- Prototype hotels for the jet age / Bruce Peter.
  note: edited by Anna Despotopoulou, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, and Efterpi Mitsi.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Hotels in literature
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
  classification: PN56.H68 H68 2023
  classification: 809/.9332
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221210
    record change date: 20230726142403.8
    record identifier: in00004731039