LEADER 03763nam 22006732 450 001 9911008437703321 005 20151002020704.0 010 $a1-281-94934-5 010 $a9786611949341 010 $a1-57113-675-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781571136756 035 $a(CKB)1000000000720114 035 $a(OCoLC)302054343 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10354648 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000173213 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11196788 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173213 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10161633 035 $a(PQKB)10192940 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781571136756 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003596 035 $a(DE-B1597)676173 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781571136756 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000720114 100 $a20120822d2006|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe hotel as setting in early twentieth-century German and Austrian literature $echecking in to tell a story /$fBettina Matthias 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 221 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-57113-321-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index. 327 $aThe history of European commercial hospitality -- The hotel and hotel culture in modernism: some critical thoughts -- Players and places: stock elements of hotel culture and fiction -- Women in hotels -- Men in hotels -- Menschen im Hotel. 330 $aAs the bourgeois concept of 'home' became problematic after important changes in German-speaking society during the 19th century, many fiction writers chose the literary setting of the hotel to explore the status of the individual and the notions of public and private. As social microcosms, hotels are fitting experimental settings for literary inquiries into the tension between the individual's quest for a place in the world and the technocratic rationalism of modern life. The book has two parts, the first establishing the cultural and theoretical context and the second providing analyses of literary works set in hotels. A brief history of commercial hospitality and a chapter establishing the theoretical framework of the hotel as a paradigmatic, ambivalent, semi-public, and stage-like modern space lead to readings of texts by Schnitzler, Zweig, Werfel, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Joseph Roth, and Vicki Baum. BETTINA MATTHIAS is associate professor of German at Middlebury College. 410 0$aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) 517 3 $aThe Hotel as Setting in Early Twentieth-Century German & Austrian Literature 606 $aGerman literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGerman literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAustrian literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAustrian literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHotels in literature 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAustrian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAustrian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHotels in literature. 676 $a830.9/3559 700 $aMatthias$b Bettina$01828057 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008437703321 996 $aThe hotel as setting in early twentieth-century German and Austrian literature$94396144 997 $aUNINA