@HotemsP

A project exploring hotels in modernist literature, hosted by the University of Athens and funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation

 Athens, Greece
hotems.enl.uoa.gr/
Joined March 2020
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Robert Tally@RobertTally24 May 2024
The Jameson at 90 series continues, today with my piece on Postmodernism.
Verso Books@VersoBooks24 May 2024
Robert T. Tally Jr revisits Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism for the eighth instalment of our Jameson at 90 series.

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4/) Saigon hotels of the Vietnam War: Hotel Rex, Saigon: Taken over entirely as officer's billet and JUSPAO Joint US Public Affairs Office where they have the daily 'Five O'Clock Follies' @HotemsP @MAC_VSOG mitteleuropa.hstn.me/welt_36…
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Hotel Blues, anyone? Some gospel praying for a NYC hotel opening...Published this @HotemsP Expicator piece on Langston Hughes: "'Ma soul’s a Witness for de Waldorf-Astoria!' Langston Hughes’s Poetic Hotel Advertisement": tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.… #NewYorkCity #HotelModernisms
Credit: Langston Hughes, “Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria,” Illustrated by Walter Steinhüber, New Masses, Dec. 1931. 16-17. Image Credit: Marxists Internet Archive https://www.marxists.org/.../v07n07-dec-1931-New-Masses.pdf.

ALT Credit: Langston Hughes, “Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria,” Illustrated by Walter Steinhüber, New Masses, Dec. 1931. 16-17. Image Credit: Marxists Internet Archive https://www.marxists.org/.../v07n07-dec-1931-New-Masses.pdf.

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The next time you're writing a conference papers in a hotel, we recommend Anna Despotopoulou on women and interwar hotels as a "space of one's own". scalar.usc.edu/works/the-spa…
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«Ιστορίες ξενοδοχείων: Η ανάδυση του ελληνικού ξενοδοχείου στη λογοτεχνία» Κυκλοφορεί από τις Εκδόσεις του Ελληνικού Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου (συνεπιμέλεια με Χρύσα Μαρίνου @chrmarinou, @HotemsP) και άρθρα από εκλεκτούς συντελεστές.
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L' Hôtel Beau-Rivage, Bandol, La Côte d'Azur, Vintage Postcard

ALT L' Hôtel Beau-Rivage, Bandol, La Côte d'Azur, Vintage Postcard

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America@DHLawrenceSocNA27 Sep 2023
#DHLOTD - 27 Sep 1929 - to Earl Brewster: ‘From here [Hotel Beau Rivage, Bandol], one feels Africa. It is queer - but the direct vibration seems to be from Africa. Next winter we’ll go’.
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"Dark" Durrell@DarkDurrell15 Sep 2023
"I spent a week there in the old familiar room at the Cecil, now stripped of all its finery and echoing like a barn with the seawind sweeping under doors and through the windows; I reflected on exile in general and my own in particular...1/2 #DarkDurrell #callforpapers #Hotel
E. M. Forster, Alexandria: A History and Guide, Introduction by Lawrence Durrell, xv– xx. London and New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks.

ALT E. M. Forster, Alexandria: A History and Guide, Introduction by Lawrence Durrell, xv– xx. London and New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks.

David Hockney, "Man in Lobby, Hotel Cecil," Alexandria , 1963 Medium: ink on hotel stationary

ALT David Hockney, "Man in Lobby, Hotel Cecil," Alexandria , 1963 Medium: ink on hotel stationary

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Sabrina Moro@SabrinaMoro96 Sep 2023
John Atkinson Grimshaw 🎨 ( 6 September 1836 - 13 October 1893 ). Scarborough from the Seats near The Grand Hotel, 1879.
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C.P. Cavafy@CCavafy6 Sep 2023
Rue Lepsius in the 1980s. The flat with the balcony and washing once belonged to Cavafy. At the time this picture was taken, it was a cheap pension. Photograph: Michael Haag.
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Mazo de la Roche, "Delight" 1926 The exceptionally attractive Delight outshines all the other Duke of York Hotel maids at the hotel ball: “Delight,” he bit off, “you’re a terrible woman. I believe you’re going to be the curse of this hotel" #HotelAtlas hotems.enl.uoa.gr/projects/h…
"Delight," Mazo De La Roche. Credit: McMaster University (Archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format): https://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/hpcanpub/media/delight-mazo-de-la-roche

ALT "Delight," Mazo De La Roche. Credit: McMaster University (Archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format): https://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/hpcanpub/media/delight-mazo-de-la-roche

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Jacques Verroust. Rue Tholozé et le Moulin de la Galette, Montmartre Fin des années 1950. Paris Hello Twitter!
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"Georgian Café, the Grange, Winnipeg." One of a set of collotype postcards produced for the hotel's owner, George Skinner. Unused. Restaurant interiors are really interesting -- countless thousands of these images are preserved on postcards from this era from around the world.
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Man Ray, "Kiki de Montparnasse" Shot at his room at the Hôtel des Ecoles, 15 rue Delambre (now Hotel Lenox). In 1921, the visual artist moved there and set up his studio and darkroom. Source: "Kiki's Memoir" Billy Kluver and Julie Martin, (eds.) The Ecco Press, 1996 #Hotel #Paris
"Les amants de Kiki… (4ème épisode)": https://montparnassedekiki-mememad.com/les-amants-de-kiki-4eme-episode/

ALT "Les amants de Kiki… (4ème épisode)": https://montparnassedekiki-mememad.com/les-amants-de-kiki-4eme-episode/

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Mordecai@MenschOhneMusil31 Jul 2023
David #Hockney (b. 1937), Strand Hotel Rangoon, 1971.
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A tableau vivant with students of the Athens American School (ASCSA) pretending to be asleep in their hotel flea bags. Photo taken in Edward D. Perry’s room: Grand Hotel, Athens, Dec. 1900. #TheGreekHotel #HotelModernisms Via: Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, nataliavogeikoff.com/2023/07… 1/2
Source: ASCSA Archives, Charles Weller Papers. “Disjecta Membra: The Personal Papers of Minnie Bunker,” From the Archivist’s Notebook

ALT Source: ASCSA Archives, Charles Weller Papers. “Disjecta Membra: The Personal Papers of Minnie Bunker,” From the Archivist’s Notebook

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2/2 Front row (l-r): Helen E. Hoag. Agnes Baldwin, Rufus Richardson. Back row (l-r): Maurice E. Dunham, Samuel E. Bassett, Edward D. Perry, Bert H. Hill, Louis F. Anderson, and Charles Weller. Via: Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, nataliavogeikoff.com/2023/07…

Disjecta Membra: The Personal Papers of Minnie Bunker

We have been processing a large shipment of files that the Princeton office of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA or School hereafter) mailed to Greece during their relocatio…

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C.P. Cavafy@CCavafy27 Jul 2023
“I met in the lobby of the hotel Mme Pringo, Mr. Haicalis and his daughters, with whom I exchanged a few polite words. As I did not feel quite well, I did not lunch. I had a copious tea at 3 – eggs, bread and butter. I feel very well now.” – C.P. Cavafy, Phalerum, 27 July 1901.
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The author Richard Llewellyn stayed at the Russell Hotel over Christmas 1943 as 'Lt.Lloyd' whilst serving with the Welsh Guards @HotemsP @WelshGuardsWGR
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Nadine Gordimer, “A Style of Her Own” (1960) Of course, the hotel was not her sort of place at all— she did not stay at ‘‘private” hotels but at old, large, expensive public ones, intimidating as museums to those who had not been coming to them for years, as she had,...1/2 #Hotel
Grand National Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa (1906) Vintage Postcard.

ALT Grand National Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa (1906) Vintage Postcard.

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2/3 all over the world. She had been led to come to the private hotel in Johannesburg “by misinformation,” as she quietly put it, her eyelids drooping and her voice dying away. She had not liked the large Johannesburg hotel she had stayed at on her last visit to the city...
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3/3 (“It was full of American tourists with their cameras and their children— both bumped me about constantly in the lifts”) and she supposed all the others were as little to her taste. (69)
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