Inventing Romance Studies

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 Introduction04:06 The Uncertainty of Interpretation05:54 Questions13:43 The Temptations of Complicity19:20 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romancestudies

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Inventing Romance StudiesBy Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia