Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

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CMLT 0315

Hotel and Modern Experience

"A Home Away From home": The Hotel and the Modern Experience (in English)
In this course we will examine the hotel as a quintessentially modern social and cultural space. Sex and love, death and crime, money and leisure, and architecture and commerce find a special "home away from home" in the hotel, a quality that has inspired the cultural imagination for generations. Theories by G. Simmel, S. Kracauer, and Th. Veblen will help explain the complex dynamics between time, space, and money underlying the hotel's special aura. By “reading" real and fictional hotels in the arts and media (E. Hopper, Th. Mann, A. Hailey, St. Zweig), we will show the hotel's complex significance as a symbol of modern life. 3 hrs sem.
Subject:
Comparative Literature
Department:
Comparative Literature
Division:
Literature
Requirements Fulfilled:
EUR LIT SOC
Equivalent Courses:
GRMN 0315 *

Sections in Spring 2013

Spring 2013

CMLT0315A-S13 Seminar (Matthias)