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
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20:24
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 Introduction
02:04 Acquiring a Taste for Domination
06:53 Questions
11:00 Mobilizing the Politics of Language
19:33 Credits
Full text here: https://rmst202.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/02/brilliant-friend.pdf
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19:48
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 Necropolitics
11:08 Questions
14:03 Burrowing through Space
26:21 Credits
For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/
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26:36
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 Necropolitics
07:25 Questions
10:14 Reading as Resurrection
20:03 Credits
For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/
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20:18
Money to Burn: Ricardo Piglia on Genre, Truth, and Money
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 Story
20:41 Questions
22:38 Bonfire of the Vanities
35:05 Credits
For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/
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