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Inventing Romance Studies
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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 inspired by UBC's strategic plan: "UBC is committed to making education more affordable and accessible, with expanded creation and dissemination of open educational resources. Our intentions are bold and genuine, and there are good examples of positive impact in inclusion to date. But we must redouble our efforts to make sustained progress."
Where contributions are produced or signed by individuals, any opinions or views expressed should be assumed to be their own, rather than those of the university or any particular department or program.
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 inspired by UBC's strategic plan: "UBC is committed to making education more affordable and accessible, with expanded creation and dissemination of open educational resources. Our intentions are bold and genuine, and there are good examples of positive impact in inclusion to date. But we must redouble our efforts to make sustained progress."
Where contributions are produced or signed by individuals, any opinions or views expressed should be assumed to be their own, rather than those of the university or any particular department or program.
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
#rmst202 #romancestudies
For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/
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
#rmst202 #romancestudies
For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/
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My Brilliant Friend: Elena Ferrante on Class, Capital, and Language
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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: rmst202.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/02/brilliant-friend.pdf For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/#rmst202 #romanc...
Faces in the Crowd: Valeria Luiselli’s Haunted Times and Places
Просмотров 205 месяцев назад
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. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
Faces in the Crowd: Valeria Luiselli’s Haunted Times and Places
Просмотров 1795 месяцев назад
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 Folding Time 11:08 Questions 14:03 Burrowing through Space 26:21 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
Death with Interruptions: José Saramago on Necropolitics and Resurrection
Просмотров 1435 месяцев назад
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. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
Death with Interruptions: José Saramago on Necropolitics and Resurrection
Просмотров 255 месяцев назад
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. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
Money to Burn: Ricardo Piglia on Genre, Truth, and Money
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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. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
Money to Burn: Ricardo Piglia on Genre, Truth, and Money
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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. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
The Trenchcoat: Norman Manea on Interpretation and Complicity
Просмотров 125 месяцев назад
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 Introduction 04:06 The Uncertainty of Interpretation 05:54 Questions 13:43 The Temptations of Com...
The Book of Chameleons: José Eduardo Agualusa on Duplicity, Tribute, and Revenge
Просмотров 1345 месяцев назад
It may be nice to think we can reinvent ourselves, construct new pasts and precursors, and fiction encourages us in this fantasy. But there are scars that simply will not fade. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 06:22 The Powers of the False 07:03 Questions 16:02 History's Revenge 26:42 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
The Book of Chameleons: José Eduardo Agualusa on Duplicity, Tribute, and Revenge
Просмотров 265 месяцев назад
It may be nice to think we can reinvent ourselves, construct new pasts and precursors, and fiction encourages us in this fantasy. But there are scars that simply will not fade. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 06:22 The Powers of the False 07:03 Questions 16:02 History's Revenge 26:42 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
The Lover: Marguerite Duras Returns to the Threshold
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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 Agency 09:35 Questions 12:19 Rewriting Hierarchy 22:01 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
The Lover: Marguerite Duras Returns to the Threshold
Просмотров 2746 месяцев назад
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 Agency 09:35 Questions 12:19 Rewriting Hierarchy 22:01 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino and the Ends of Discourse
Просмотров 275 месяцев назад
You, of course, may take your reading of the novel in some other direction, reach your own conclusions. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 04:40 Metafiction and Materiality 08:47 Questions 17:53 Escaping Gendered Endings 26:14 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino and the Ends of Discourse
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You, of course, may take your reading of the novel in some other direction, reach your own conclusions. By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia. 00:00 Introduction 04:40 Metafiction and Materiality 08:47 Questions 17:53 Escaping Gendered Endings 26:14 Credits For RMST 202. rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/ #romancestudies #rmst202
Black Shack Alley: Joseph Zobel, Development, and Writing
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Black Shack Alley: Joseph Zobel, Development, and Writing
The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda on Destitution and Bricolage
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The Time of the Doves: Mercè Rodoreda on Destitution and Bricolage
Deep Rivers: José María Arguedas on Conflict and Convergence Without End
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Deep Rivers: José María Arguedas on Conflict and Convergence Without End
Deep Rivers: José María Arguedas on Conflict and Convergence Without End
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Deep Rivers: José María Arguedas on Conflict and Convergence Without End
Nada: Carmen Laforet on Narrative, Memory, and Trauma
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Nada: Carmen Laforet on Narrative, Memory, and Trauma
Agostino: Alberto Moravia and the Return of the Real
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Agostino: Alberto Moravia and the Return of the Real
The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector's Struggle with Writing and Ethics
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The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector's Struggle with Writing and Ethics
The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector's Struggle with Writing and Ethics
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The Hour of the Star: Clarice Lispector's Struggle with Writing and Ethics
The Shrouded Woman: María Luisa Bombal and Peripheral Modernism
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The Shrouded Woman: María Luisa Bombal and Peripheral Modernism
Nadja: André Breton’s Flirtation with Madness
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Nadja: André Breton’s Flirtation with Madness
Nadja: André Breton’s Flirtation with Madness
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Nadja: André Breton’s Flirtation with Madness
Mad Toy: Roberto Arlt on Picaresque Betrayal and Rebirth
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Mad Toy: Roberto Arlt on Picaresque Betrayal and Rebirth
Mad Toy: Roberto Arlt on Picaresque Betrayal and Rebirth
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Mad Toy: Roberto Arlt on Picaresque Betrayal and Rebirth
RMST202: Romance Studies, Modernism to the Present. Trailer
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RMST202: Romance Studies, Modernism to the Present. Trailer
loved the analysis! amazing video, thank you so much for all the details regarding this amazing book!
Absolutely excellent. Thank you.
I enjoyed your review of The Lover. I am a big fan of the book and the movie. I have also seen the two movie versions of the Sea Wall and read the North China Lover. I always felt the young girl always had the power. I like the movie, because they end it when she is on the boat and she realizes she did love him.
"Who am I? ...Perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt'. ...Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring ...learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."
I also interpreted the fact that her second husband says he can't "start a family" was also part of the slow but therapeutic process of her reclaiming herself and coming to terms with her past trauma. Similar to how he doesn't want her to clean for him, he also doesn't ask or require sex (two things over which women have historically had little control - over their labour and their bodies) which considering she doesn't necessarily see him as a romantic attraction and because in those times i assume wives had no legal grounds *not* to consent (and little cultural allowance to decline) and in the context of her previous abusive husband... I interpreted the fact that she wouldn't have to have sex with her new husband, as a big reason for agreeing to marry him and a bigger part of end theme of her reclaiming herself... part of the context of this new independence and freedom that i think eventually helps her to deal with her past trauma. It just reminds me of when we read Jane Eyre at uni and a big part of Jane and Rochester getting together finally at the end was because with his loss of sight he wasn't quite so all powerful... They were equalised somewhat with each other in a society with huge gender inequality. That is what i read into the end of In Diamond Square. She gained independence throughout the book, and gradually more as her first husband was less powerful through lack of work (so she got a job) and then leaving and then dying.... And its only when she only really believes he is dead and has the kindness of her new husband and emotional (and economic) stability that brings... That she can recover... Though even then, arguably, the sudden change sounds like it was a shock to her. At least it ends seeming like she feels better... Anyway... Brilliant novel. I guess mine was a feminist, relationship-based and trauma informed reading of it. Really interesting video all the same.
Yes, she gains contentment (the final word of the book, again: "contentos"). But arguably then she has given up on the possibility of other kinds of happiness, which were also part of the extremes (alongside the "screams") of her previous life. Thanks again for your comments! And I totally agree that it's a brilliant novel.
I am surprised that their relationship is described as passionate and sexual etc with the "week of wedding nights". I have just read this book and understood the description of their wedding night (week) as traumatic. She says she is "terrified" and he laughs at her making an incredibly violent joke, and we have already seen that he is very jealous, controlling and physically abusive...so that is the context i read this in. She introduces the description of the wedding night with "... He made me see stars". I thought this was a clever way for the narrator to describe something in her characteristic enigmatic style, inviting an interpretationof this description in the context of a violent and abusive relationship. I originally thought she was reluctant to tell her friend about it because it had been awful ans traumatic. I can see how other readings of this could be possible... But... I am just surprised that the clear, explicit abuse isnt mentioned, let alone the less obvious things, when talking about this book... Maybe i need to watch the rest of the video. But other reviews don't mention it either. They mention the trauma of the war, but not the abusiveness of the relationship.
Many thanks for your thoughtful comments. It is certainly an abusive relationship, as you say, though Rodoreda never (I think) quite condemns it as such. She also presents Quimet very much as a figure of vitality (and of course he almost immediately signs up to fight for the Republic), although unreliable in almost everything he does. Natalia is even at the end, I'd say, ambivalent about her previous relationship (which does not for a minute mean it was not abusive), as we can see in the cathartic scene when she returns to Diamond Square. In teaching this book, I'd say that students latched onto the abusiveness, but also tended to blame Natalia for not seeing the "red flags" from early on.
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