Inventing Romance Studies

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

For RMST 202.

Website: https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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A Conversation for RMST 202.

With Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin) and Jon Beasley-Murray

Lecture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etyrdFxPV-o

Website: http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inventingromancestudies/

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A Conversation for RMST 202 about Djaïli Amadou Amal's The Impatient. With Djaïli Amadou Amal and Jon Beasley-Murray.

Interpretation by Julien Mowang Ngoula. Many thanks also to Irem Ayan for her advice and help.

Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/snVovb7I0qo

Lecture video:

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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 Necropolitics11:08 Questions 14:03 Burrowing through Space26:21 Credits

For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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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 Introduction02:04 Acquiring a Taste for Domination06:53 Questions11:00 Mobilizing the Politics of Language19:33 Credits

Full text here: https://rmst202.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/02/brilliant-friend.pdf

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A Conversation for RMST 202. With Ann Goldstein (Ferrante's translator) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

See also the lecture video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl434Ui-dhs

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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 Necropolitics07:25 Questions 10:14 Reading as Resurrection20:03 Credits

For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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A Conversation for RMST 202 about José Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons. With José Eduardo Agualusa and Jon Beasley-Murray.

11:46 An Absurd Reality: Violence, the Fantastic, and Exuberance16:59 Literature and Dreams: Disquieting Reminders, Sudden Creativity20:19 Dreams as Preparation for Reality: Nightmares and Tears21:55 Enter the Gecko: Finding the Voice of a Laughing God25:37 Nature and Animism: Paying Attention to Life and Death28:02 Writing and Reading to Understand the Other30:14 Credits

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Doubling kickstarts a mechanism that generates uncountable multitudes, whose diverse multiplicity contrasts starkly with the image of one nation, one people.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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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 False07:03 Questions 16:02 History's Revenge26:42 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#romancestudies #rmst202