Simon Richter Livres

Focusing on the unique subgenre of the woman's film, this book explores the character of Lola, who represents a woman's assertive claim to pleasure without the typical femme fatale trope. Highlighting over thirty-five Lola films across various countries, it showcases diverse portrayals of women, including working-class, lesbian, and transgender figures. The analysis positions Lola within the context of the early twentieth-century "new woman," emphasizing her liberation from traditional gender roles as a cinematic fantasy.

Invoking Goethe's name has become fashionable again. With new methods and technologies of reading threatening to render literature virtual and insubstantial, we have the sense that 'Goethe's ghosts' - the otherwise neglected voices and traditions that, finding their most trenchant expression in Goethe, inform the Western storehouse of literature - can show us long-forgotten dimensions of literature. Inspired by the distinguished Goethe scholar Jane Brown, the contributors to this volume take a rich variety of approaches to Goethe: cultural studies, history of the book, semiotics, deconstruction, colonial studies, feminism, childhood studies, and eco-criticism.

Using the tools of medicine, literary theory, psychology, psychoanalysis, and etymology, this book probes the breast-related fantasies underlying German culture and literature in the second half of the eighteenth century. It is intended for those interested in German textual studies, the history of sexuality, and theories of psychoanalysis.

New essays providing an account of the shaping beliefs, preoccupations, motifs, and values of Weimar Classicism.