Inventing Romance Studies

Inventing Romance Studies

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British ColumbiaEducation
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Inventing Romance Studies episodes

  • On Marguerite Duras, The Lover

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Fernanda Negrete (University at Buffalo) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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    http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

    24 min
  • If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino and the Ends of Discourse

    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 Materiality08:47 Questions 17:53 Escaping Gendered Endings26:14 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#romancestudies #rmst202

    27 min
  • The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector's Struggle with Writing and Ethics

    It is about an ethics of writing, about how writing can be true to life, to “a life,” without necessarily laying claim to the truth of that life. It is about the hesitations, affirmations, and disruptive explosions that mark any text as it tries to describe and negotiate the world.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia00:00 Introduction10:59 A Hesitant Ethics13:20 Questions21:29 An Interrupted Consumption31:02 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#romancestudies #rmst202

    32 min
  • W, or The Memory of Childhood: Georges Perec, Postmodernism, and Life Writing

    Postmodernism, by putting truth in question (or in brackets) does not necessarily abandon either politics or ethics.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction01:48 Postmodernity, Postmodernism, and Fragments07:50 Questions11:15 Life Writing and the Return of the Subject19:49 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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    21 min
  • The Passion According to G. H.: Clarice Lispector on Difficult Passions

    By the end G. H. accepts, even embraces, passion, if at the price perhaps of accepting that she is neither subject nor object but, like the cockroach, abject.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction01:36 Learning from Difficulty09:36 Questions10:51 Passion Between Subject and Object21:08 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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    22 min
  • The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda on Destitution and Bricolage

    The challenge is to try to stitch things up, paper over the cracks, create new attachments or conjunctions of people and objects in a bricolage that is no longer indebted to myths of organic harmony or natural inclination.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction02:30 Bare Life08:56 Questions11:50 Putting back the Pieces19:27 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romancestudies

    20 min
  • Deep Rivers: José María Arguedas on Conflict and Convergence Without End

    If colonization is not (yet) complete, then the outcome of this struggle is perhaps still to be determined.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia00:00 Introduction04:43 Never-Ending Stories12:42 Questions17:37 Approaching Reconciliation27:52 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#romancestudies #rmst202

    29 min

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This channel showcases teaching and research in Romance Studies, to generate conversation and discussion about the field and about texts written in the Romance languages. We welcome feedback.