"Transzendental heimatlos"

Hotels were a favorite setting in early twentieth-century German prose. Drawing on theories by sociologists Georg Simmel, Thorstein Veblen, and Siegfried Kracauer, the paper sketches the sociocultural conditions under which hotels became a meeting place for a growing segment of society. As a symbol...

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Published in:	Arcadia 2005, Vol.40 (1), p.117
Main Author:	Matthias, Bettina
Format:	Article
Language:	eng ; ger
Subjects:	Culture Fiction German language German literature Hotels & motels Kracauer, Siegfried (1889-1966) Language history Literary criticism Lukacs, Georg (1885-1971) Prose Schnitzler, Arthur (1862-1931) Simmel, Georg (1858-1918) Sociology Theory Veblen, Thorstein Bunde (1857-1929) Werfel, Franz (1890-1945) Zweig, Stefan (1881-1942)
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Summary:	Hotels were a favorite setting in early twentieth-century German prose. Drawing on theories by sociologists Georg Simmel, Thorstein Veblen, and Siegfried Kracauer, the paper sketches the sociocultural conditions under which hotels became a meeting place for a growing segment of society. As a symbol of life's commercialization and the increasing anonymity of social communication, the hotel emerges as a setting par excellence to observe and study in fiction the relationship between individual and society. In texts by the modernist writers Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Werfel, and Stefan Zweig the semi-anonymous space of the hotel has a special impact on female characters.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:	0003-7982 1613-0642