Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski continues his discussion of Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita by reviewing the devil's retinue, going over the Russian characters we've encountered so far, and discussing the the...

12 Mar 20211h 17min

Professor Kozlowski embarks on his discussion of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, beginning with the devil's mysterious appearance in Russia, Soviet antipathy to religion, and why Bulgakov...

12 Mar 20211h 40min

Professor Kozlowski discusses Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" - a love letter to Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" which totally misses the moral point underlying Irving's sto...

9 Mar 20211h 8min

Nope. Just nope.

5 Mar 20211h 29min

Professor Kozlowski discusses two key chapters of Fyodor Dostoevsky's massive, ugly masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov. We touch especially on Ivan's arc through the story, and how Dostoevsky uses h...

5 Mar 20211h 30min

Professor Kozlowski takes a stab at interpreting Byron's satirical labyrinth: Don Juan. Including: Hypocrisy! The obvious(?) conflict between classical education and conventional morality! Hypocrisy!...

23 Feb 20211h 23min

Professor Kozlowski discusses Washington Irving's delightful and cutting short story of social satire and satanic shenanigans: "The Devil and Tom Walker". This includes some discussion of where the s...

23 Feb 20211h 21min

Professor Kozlowski concludes his discussion of Goethe's Faust, Part One by discussing the fall of Gretchen/Margareta, and touching briefly on the conclusion of Faust, Part Two for the sake of closure...

19 Feb 20211h 24min