Inventing Romance Studies

A Conversation for RMST 202. With Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray. #rmst202 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

By the end G. H. accepts, even embraces, passion, if at the price perhaps of accepting that she is neither subject nor object but, like the cockroach, abject. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction01:36 Learning from Difficulty09:36 Questions10:51 Passion Between Subject and Object21:08 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #rmst202 #romancestudies

The challenge is to try to stitch things up, paper over the cracks, create new attachments or conjunctions of people and objects in a bricolage that is no longer indebted to myths of organic harmony or natural inclination. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction02:30 Bare Life08:56 Questions11:50 Putting back the Pieces19:27 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.art...

A Conversation for RMST 202. With Anna Casas (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray. #rmst202 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

If colonization is not (yet) complete, then the outcome of this struggle is perhaps still to be determined. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia00:00 Introduction04:43 Never-Ending Stories12:42 Questions17:37 Approaching Reconciliation27:52 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#romancestudies #rmst202

The novel resists the imposition of meaning and emotion, to affirm instead vitality and affect. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 01:40 Translation and Feelings03:18 Questions 08:58 Affect on the Surface 19:40 Credits For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #rmst202 #romancestudies

It is as though Black labour existed wholly outside language altogether, or at least outside the French language. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 01:56 The Problem with Development 07:30 Questions 10:47 The Pleasure, Possibilities, and Dangers of Writing 19:23 Credits For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romancestudies

A Conversation for RMST 202. With Emily Zobel Marshall (Leeds Beckett University) and Jon Beasley-Murray. #rmst202 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

The scars of conflict are everywhere evident, if seldom dwelt upon, in Laforet’s novel. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction01:42 Nothing like a Story08:20 Questions10:08 Memory and the Open Secret17:01 CreditsFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #rmst202 #romancestudies

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

Agostino’s loss is inherent to language, whose powers to name always fall short. 00:00 Introduction , 01:26 Size Isn't Everything, 06:56 Questions , 08:32 Oedipus at Sea, 16:35 Credits By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #rmst202 #romancestudies

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

The power of fiction resides in the fact that it is not simply mimicry—or rather, that even mimicry is more than mere copy. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction01:52 The Powers of Fiction07:29 Questions08:47 Gender and Agency12:50 A View from the Margins17:33 Credits For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #rmst202 #romancestudies

A Conversation for RMST 202. With Naomi Lindstrom (University of Texas at Austin) and Jon Beasley-Murray. #rmst202 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

We are challenged to impose some sense on the disorder the book shows us, through either analysis or fiction, but also to postpone that sense-making, to live (however briefly) with the unexpected contingencies of modern life. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 02:49 Fictions of the Self and Others 08:21 Questions 15:38 Risking the Self with Others 24:48 Credi...

A Conversation for RMST 202. With Mark Polizzotti (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Jon Beasley-Murray. #rmst202 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

The ruins of the modern, everything that escapes but also haunts it, reveal modernity’s true shape. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #rmst202 #romancestudies

Arlt steals from the literary tradition, as with his theft of elements of the picaresque, but he also turns his back on it, betrays it, gives it a figurative middle finger, by opening up his text to the cacophonous demotic of the Buenos Aires streets. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction 02:39 The Picaresque, Pulp Fiction, and New Forms of Representation05:35 Qu...

A Conversation for RMST 202. With Ben Bollig (St Catherine's College, Oxford) and Jon Beasley-Murray. #rmst202 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

It aims to shake us out of our habits, so we become more active readers, and as such better readers. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. #rmst202 #romancestudies For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

A Conversation for RMST 202. With Farid Laroussi (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray. #rmst202 #romancestudies http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

Romance Studies emerges when tradition is infiltrated and overthrown by the demotic, by the everyday speech of a nameless multitude. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.00:00 Introduction01:12 In Search of the Commons05:50 Where in the World?06:15 Question10:50 A Bastard (Anti-)Discipline16:04 Credits#rmst202 #romancestudiesFor RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

A Conversation for RMST 202. With Tim Beasley-Murray (University College London) and Jon Beasley-Murray. #romancestudies #rmst202 http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca