Inventing Romance Studies

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

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

The power of writing has little to do with whatever meaning it may convey, subject to interpretation, but rather with the book as fetish object, the materiality of paper.
By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

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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

In rewriting the lover, Duras also rewrites herself, her origin as writer, in a precarious zone shuttling between past and future and back again.By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 03:11 Approaching Agency09:35 Questions 12:19 Rewriting Hierarchy22:01 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#romancestudies #rmst202