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Inventing Romance Studies
Inventing Romance Studies
Author: Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
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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.
It is also a place for Open Educational Resources produced as part of the teaching of Romance Studies at the University of British Columbia, though it does not claim to speak for or represent the university or its program in Romance Studies.
It is also a place for Open Educational Resources produced as part of the teaching of Romance Studies at the University of British Columbia, though it does not claim to speak for or represent the university or its program in Romance Studies.
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A Conversation for RMST 202. With Ryan Long (University of Maryland) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202. With famed Romanian writer Norman Manea, Jon Beasley-Murray, and students of RMST 202.We profoundly thank Professor Manea for the privilege of his time and his extraordinary generosity.#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202 about José Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons. With José Eduardo Agualusa and Jon Beasley-Murray.00:00 Introduction01:46 Location and Translation: Angola and the Rest of the World06:48 Finding a Title: On Geckos and Chameleons11:46 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#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202. With Fernanda Negrete (University at Buffalo) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202. With Claudia Dellacasa (Glasgowl University) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202. With Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202. With Anna Casas (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202. With Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Beckett University) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
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
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#rmst202 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202. With Naomi Lindstrom (University of Texas at Austin) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202. With Mark Polizzotti (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202. With Ben Bollig (St Catherine's College, Oxford) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202. With Farid Laroussi (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
A Conversation for RMST 202. With Tim Beasley-Murray (University College London) and Jon Beasley-Murray.#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
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#rmst202 #romancestudieshttp://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca
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/#rmst202 #romancestudies
Writing is rendered a battle of betrayal and counter-betrayal, whereby it is not truth (fidelity) that leads to the real, but subterfuge (perfidy) that gives us the really real, the heart of the matter!By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romancestudies
Bolaño's fiction, whether set in Chile or Mexico, is as much about a memory of Latin America as it is about the region’s actuality, even if that memory is sometimes also a memory of the future.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romancestudies
Money is, after all, one of the most powerful fictions that structure social relations.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 08:49 Based on a True Story20:41 Questions 22:38 Bonfire of the Vanities35:05 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#romancestudies #rmst202























