Inventing Romance Studies

Inventing Romance Studies

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

  • Bonjour Tristesse: Françoise Sagan on Translation and Affect

    The novel resists the imposition of meaning and emotion, to affirm instead vitality and affect. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 01:40 Translation and Feelings03:18 Questions 08:58 Affect on the Surface 19:40 Credits For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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    20 min
  • Black Shack Alley: Joseph Zobel, Development, and Writing

    It is as though Black labour existed wholly outside language altogether, or at least outside the French language. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 01:56 The Problem with Development 07:30 Questions 10:47 The Pleasure, Possibilities, and Dangers of Writing 19:23 Credits For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romancestudies

    20 min
  • Nada: Carmen Laforet on Narrative, Memory, and Trauma

    The scars of conflict are everywhere evident, if seldom dwelt upon, in Laforet’s novel.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction01:42 Nothing like a Story08:20 Questions10:08 Memory and the Open Secret17:01 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

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    18 min
  • On Carment Laforet, Nada

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Sally Perret (Salisbury University) and Jon Beasley-Murray.00:00 Introduction00:57 Fragments of Unsuspected Truth07:15 Hints at a Political Past08:45 Senses at the Limit12:00 A Feeling for What Could Have Been15:37 Gender and Possibility19:18 Nothing but Resignation?21:17 Credits#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

    22 min
  • Agostino: Alberto Moravia and the Return of the Real

    Agostino’s loss is inherent to language, whose powers to name always fall short.

    00:00 Introduction , 01:26 Size Isn't Everything, 06:56 Questions , 08:32 Oedipus at Sea, 16:35 Credits

    By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

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

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    17 min
  • On Alberto Moravia, Agostino

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Gaoheng Zhang (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

    00:00 Introduction00:51 Between Freud and Marx03:53 Neorealism and Narrative06:19 Danger and Coming of Age10:26 Temporality and Disruption14:23 What Next? Telling and Showing18:00 Credits

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    19 min
  • The Shrouded Woman: María Luisa Bombal and Peripheral Modernism

    The power of fiction resides in the fact that it is not simply mimicry—or rather, that even mimicry is more than mere copy.

    By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

    00:00 Introduction01:52 The Powers of Fiction07:29 Questions08:47 Gender and Agency12:50 A View from the Margins17:33 Credits

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

    #rmst202 #romancestudies

    18 min
  • Nadja: André Breton’s Flirtation with Madness

    We are challenged to impose some sense on the disorder the book shows us, through either analysis or fiction, but also to postpone that sense-making, to live (however briefly) with the unexpected contingencies of modern life.

    By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

    00:00 Introduction

    02:49 Fictions of the Self and Others

    08:21 Questions

    15:38 Risking the Self with Others

    24:48 Credits

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

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    26 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.