Inventing Romance Studies

Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

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.

  1. 1 abr

    A World of Difference

    If the hallmark of literary representation is that it is an unfaithful representation of the real, then perhaps the most literary texts are those that betray (disclose or let slip) that infidelity even as they indulge in it themselves. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 02:07 Patterns of Commonality and Difference 03:36 Questions 04:57 Growing Up and Betrayal 14:24 Romance Studies as Minor Literature 20:09 Credits For RMST 202. Website: https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202

    A World of Difference

  2. 29 mar ·  Contenido extra

    Djaïli Amadou Amal in Conversation

    A Conversation for RMST 202 about Djaïli Amadou Amal's The Impatient. With Djaïli Amadou Amal and Jon Beasley-Murray. Interpretation by Julien Mowang Ngoula. Many thanks also to Irem Ayan for her advice and help. Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/snVovb7I0qo Lecture video: Website: http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inventingromancestudies/ #romancestudies #rmst202

    Djaïli Amadou Amal in Conversation

  3. 26 mar

    Faces in the Crowd: Valeria Luiselli’s Haunted Times and Places

    This is a novel that is both in transit and in translation. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 02:23 Politics as Necropolitics11:08 Questions 14:03 Burrowing through Space26:21 Credits For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202

    Faces in the Crowd: Valeria Luiselli’s Haunted Times and Places

  4. 24 mar

    My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante on Class, Capital, and Language

    The best they can do, it seems, is embrace their fate, fight for their own servitude. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction02:04 Acquiring a Taste for Domination06:53 Questions11:00 Mobilizing the Politics of Language19:33 Credits Full text here: https://rmst202.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/02/brilliant-friend.pdf For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #rmst202 #romancestudies

    My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante on Class, Capital, and Language

  5. 24 mar ·  Contenido extra

    On Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

    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 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

    On Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

  6. 22 mar

    Death with Interruptions: José Saramago on Necropolitics and Resurrection

    Art may not be able to evade death, but through performance it can be a vehicle of resurrection. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 03:18 Politics as Necropolitics07:25 Questions 10:14 Reading as Resurrection20:03 Credits For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202

    Death with Interruptions: José Saramago on Necropolitics and Resurrection

  7. 19 mar ·  Contenido extra

    José Eduardo Agualusa in Conversation

    A Conversation for RMST 202 about José Eduardo Agualusa's The Book of Chameleons. With José Eduardo Agualusa and Jon Beasley-Murray. 11:46 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 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

    José Eduardo Agualusa in Conversation

  8. 19 mar

    The Society of Reluctant Dreamers: José Eduardo Agualusa and National Allegory

    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

    The Society of Reluctant Dreamers: José Eduardo Agualusa and National Allegory
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Información

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.

Ficha técnica

  • Creado por
    Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
  • Años en activo
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodios
    47
  • Clasificación
    Apto
  • Derechos de autor
    © Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
  • Sitio web del podcast
    Inventing Romance Studies

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