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“I’m not queer, I’m disembodied”: Hotel and Desire in William S. Burroughs’ “Queer”

By Sevasti Evangelisti-Louta The Beat Generation occupies a distinct and transitional period in American literature. Timothy S. Murphy (1998) describes William Burroughs by coining the…

anna10/07/2025

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Katherine Mansfield’s Honeymoon Hotel

By Maria Dionisia Athanasopoulou “Honeymoon” is a short story by Katherine Mansfield, published in 1923 that follows a day in the life of two…

anna16/03/2023

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The Entrance

By Bettina Matthias Part of the street life, part of the hotel’s universe, the entrance is designed to lure people inside. As the hotel’s carpet…

anna14/02/2023

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May Sinclair (1863-1946) and World War I: Ostend’s The Terminus in “A Journal of Impressions in Belgium” (1915)

By Chryssa Marinou May Sinclair’s 1915 A Journal of Impressions in Belgium is a record of her time near the Belgian war front. According to…

anna14/01/2023

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European Hotels and Postcolonial Malaise in Simon Njami’s “African Gigolo”

By Anna-Leena Toivanen As a literary space, the hotel tends to be associated with Western literary traditions, where it often represents the “restless modern mind”…

anna04/05/2022

“I’m not queer, I’m disembodied”: Hotel and Desire in William S. Burroughs’ “Queer”

Katherine Mansfield’s Honeymoon Hotel

The Entrance

May Sinclair (1863-1946) and World War I: Ostend’s The Terminus in “A Journal of Impressions in Belgium” (1915)

European Hotels and Postcolonial Malaise in Simon Njami’s “African Gigolo”

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“I’m not queer, I’m disembodied”: Hotel and Desire in William S. Burroughs’ “Queer”

Katherine Mansfield’s Honeymoon Hotel

The Entrance

May Sinclair (1863-1946) and World War I: Ostend’s The Terminus in “A Journal of Impressions in Belgium” (1915)

European Hotels and Postcolonial Malaise in Simon Njami’s “African Gigolo”

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