Episodios

  • On Alberto Moravia, Agostino
    Nov 19 2025

    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

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    18 m
  • On Mercè Rodoreda, The Time of the Doves
    Nov 19 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Anna Casas and Jon Beasley-Murray.00:00 Introduction01:12 Sadness and Apparent Simplicity03:40 Mental Space and Physical Space09:23 Incarceration, Liberation, and Ornamentation13:08 Birds, Animals, and the Borders of the Self16:46 A Country that Kills its own Children 18:44 The Beauty in Things20:22 Credits#rmst202 #romancestudies

    http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    21 m
  • On Georges Perec, W, or the Memory of Childhood
    Nov 19 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Vincent Gélinas-Lemaire (UBC) and Jon Beasley-Murray.00:00 Introduction00:53 A Double Quest, Intensity, and a Lost Cause05:55 Repetition and an Obsessive Search for Clues09:17 Details, Memory, and the Infra-Ordinary13:35 Constraint, Freedom, and Breaking Patterns17:18 From Utopia to Dystopia: The Rules of Totalitarianism20:08 Credits#rmst202 #romancestudies

    http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    20 m
  • Norman Manea in Conversation
    Nov 19 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With famed Romanian writer Norman Manea, Jon Beasley-Murray, and students of RMST 202.We profoundly thank Professor Manea for the privilege of his time and his extraordinary generosity.#rmst202 #romancestudies

    http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    43 m
  • On Roberto Bolaño, Amulet
    Nov 19 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Ryan Long (University of Maryland) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

    #rmst202 #romancestudies

    http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    22 m
  • On Romance Studies
    Nov 18 2025

    A Conversation for RMST 202. With Tim Beasley-Murray (University College London) and Jon Beasley-Murray.

    #rmst202 #romancestudies

    http://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca

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    23 m
  • The Society of Reluctant Dreamers: José Eduardo Agualusa and National Allegory
    Nov 18 2025

    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

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    21 m
  • Soldiers of Salamis: Javier Cercas on the Truth of Betrayal
    Nov 18 2025

    Writing is rendered a battle of betrayal and counter-betrayal, whereby it is not truth (fidelity) that leads to the real, but subterfuge (perfidy) that gives us the really real, the heart of the matter!By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia.

    For RMST 202. https://rmst202.arts.ubc.ca/

    #rmst202 #romancestudies

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    21 m