Inventing Romance Studies

A Conversation for RMST 202. With Mark Polizzotti (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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The ruins of the modern, everything that escapes but also haunts it, reveal modernity’s true shape.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

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Arlt steals from the literary tradition, as with his theft of elements of the picaresque, but he also turns his back on it, betrays it, gives it a figurative middle finger, by opening up his text to the cacophonous demotic of the Buenos Aires streets.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 02:39 The Picaresque, Pulp Fiction, and New Forms of Representation05:35 Questions 11:28 The Politics and Aesthetics of Betrayal21:00 Credits

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A Conversation for RMST 202. With Ben Bollig (St Catherine's College, Oxford) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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It aims to shake us out of our habits, so we become more active readers, and as such better readers.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

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A Conversation for RMST 202. With Farid Laroussi (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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Romance Studies emerges when tradition is infiltrated and overthrown by the demotic, by the everyday speech of a nameless multitude.

By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction01:12 In Search of the Commons05:50 Where in the World?06:15 Question10:50 A Bastard (Anti-)Discipline16:04 Credits#rmst202 #romancestudiesFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

A Conversation for RMST 202. With Tim Beasley-Murray (University College London) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

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