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Undergraduate Course
WiSe 12/13: Hotel Fiction
Claudia Olk
Comments
Hotels are places of exchange. They afford space for people to retreat or meet and are located at the intersection of the public and the private sphere. They provide the setting for intimate or anonymous encounters and are places where stories can be created. As a home away from home, a place for retreat and recreation, a historical monument, luxury abode, or just a place to sleep, hotels have featured prominently in literature.
This course will be dealing with a cross section of texts and films on and about hotels, motels and boarding houses. We will study classics of hotel fiction such as Joseph Roth's Hotel Savoy, or John Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire and look at their narrative strategies to convey distinct kinds of modernist or postmodernist experience. We will analyse the link between subjectivity and the hotel space and also be concerned with hotels of horror as in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and the hotel as an in-between space as in Sophia Coppola's Lost in Translation (2003), where histories and identities are redefined.
In preparation please read: Joseph Roth, Hotel Savoy (1924), Arthur Schnitzler, Fräulein Else (1924), James Joyce, "The Boarding House" from: Dubliners (1914), Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach (2007), John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire (1981).
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2012-10-16 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2012-10-23 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2012-10-30 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2012-11-06 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2012-11-13 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2012-11-20 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2012-11-27 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2012-12-04 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2012-12-11 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2012-12-18 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2013-01-08 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2013-01-15 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2013-01-22 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2013-01-29 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2013-02-05 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2013-02-12 12:00 - 14:00