Inventing Romance Studies
Inventing Romance Studies
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A World of Difference
If the hallmark of literary representation is that it is an unfaithful representation of the real, then perhaps the most literary texts are those that betray (disclose or let slip) that infidelity even as they indulge in it themselves.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.
00:00 Introduction
02:07 Patterns of Commonality and Difference
03:36 Questions
04:57 Growing Up and Betrayal
14:24 Romance Studies as Minor Literature
20:09 Credits
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My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante on Class, Capital, and Language
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The best they can do, it seems, is embrace their fate, fight for their own servitude. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 02:04 Acquiring a Taste for Domination 06:53 Questions 11:00 Mobilizing the Politics of Language 19:33 Credits Full text here: rmst202.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/02/brilliant-friend.pdf For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romanc...
Faces in the Crowd: Valeria Luiselli’s Haunted Times and Places
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This is a novel that is both in transit and in translation. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 02:23 Politics as Necropolitics 11:08 Questions 14:03 Burrowing through Space 26:21 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
Faces in the Crowd: Valeria Luiselli’s Haunted Times and Places
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This is a novel that is both in transit and in translation. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 02:23 Folding Time 11:08 Questions 14:03 Burrowing through Space 26:21 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
Death with Interruptions: José Saramago on Necropolitics and Resurrection
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Art may not be able to evade death, but through performance it can be a vehicle of resurrection. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 03:18 Politics as Necropolitics 07:25 Questions 10:14 Reading as Resurrection 20:03 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
Death with Interruptions: José Saramago on Necropolitics and Resurrection
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Art may not be able to evade death, but through performance it can be a vehicle of resurrection. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 03:18 Politics as Necropolitics 07:25 Questions 10:14 Reading as Resurrection 20:03 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
Money to Burn: Ricardo Piglia on Genre, Truth, and Money
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Money is, after all, one of the most powerful fictions that structure social relations. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 08:49 Based on a True Story 20:41 Questions 22:38 Bonfire of the Vanities 35:05 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
Money to Burn: Ricardo Piglia on Genre, Truth, and Money
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Money is, after all, one of the most powerful fictions that structure social relations. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 08:49 Based on a True Story 20:41 Questions 22:38 Bonfire of the Vanities 35:05 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
The Trenchcoat: Norman Manea on Interpretation and Complicity
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There is a margin of uncertainty in life as in literature, and a strange resonance between the experiences of living in Communist society and engaging with a text, both of which are exercises in close reading, a hermeneutics of suspicion. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 04:06 The Uncertainty of Interpretation 05:54 Questions 13:43 The Temptations of Com...
The Book of Chameleons: José Eduardo Agualusa on Duplicity, Tribute, and Revenge
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It may be nice to think we can reinvent ourselves, construct new pasts and precursors, and fiction encourages us in this fantasy. But there are scars that simply will not fade. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 06:22 The Powers of the False 07:03 Questions 16:02 History's Revenge 26:42 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
The Book of Chameleons: José Eduardo Agualusa on Duplicity, Tribute, and Revenge
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It may be nice to think we can reinvent ourselves, construct new pasts and precursors, and fiction encourages us in this fantasy. But there are scars that simply will not fade. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 06:22 The Powers of the False 07:03 Questions 16:02 History's Revenge 26:42 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
The Lover: Marguerite Duras Returns to the Threshold
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In rewriting the lover, Duras also rewrites herself, her origin as writer, in a precarious zone shuttling between past and future and back again. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 03:11 Approaching Agency 09:35 Questions 12:19 Rewriting Hierarchy 22:01 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
The Lover: Marguerite Duras Returns to the Threshold
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In rewriting the lover, Duras also rewrites herself, her origin as writer, in a precarious zone shuttling between past and future and back again. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 03:11 Approaching Agency 09:35 Questions 12:19 Rewriting Hierarchy 22:01 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino and the Ends of Discourse
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You, of course, may take your reading of the novel in some other direction, reach your own conclusions. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 04:40 Metafiction and Materiality 08:47 Questions 17:53 Escaping Gendered Endings 26:14 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino and the Ends of Discourse
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You, of course, may take your reading of the novel in some other direction, reach your own conclusions. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 04:40 Metafiction and Materiality 08:47 Questions 17:53 Escaping Gendered Endings 26:14 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
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