Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski wrestles with his own potentially-perverted artistic sensibilities by confronting Tolstoy's overall thesis on the function and definition of good art, as well as trying to assess, ...

1 Feb 20231h 53min

Professor Kozlowski tackles the first half of Tolstoy's aesthetic masterwork (?) What is Art? to isolate and examine (1) Tolstoy's grievances with art in the late nineteenth century (and (1b) how much...

26 Jan 20231h 47min

Professor Kozlowski reads a wide variety of Tolstoy's essays on art, including his "Schoolboys and Art," "Introduction to Semyonov's Peasant Stories," "Introduction to the Works of Guy de Maupassant,"...

17 Jan 20231h 49min

Professor Kozlowski introduces his online section of Troy and the Trojan War for Spring 2023, explaining the rough outline of the course, the expectations for conduct, grading procedures, and general ...

12 Jan 20231h 31min

For the first proper lecture in Ethics of Literature, Professor Kozlowski discusses Tolkien's often-overlooked short story, "Leaf By Niggle." This serves two purposes: by closely examining and interp...

10 Jan 20231h 37min

Professor Kozlowski begins our discussion of the ethics of literature with a simple question: Is Speaking Ethical? The answer may be simple, but the implementation, and the study of how a work of lit...

4 Jan 20231h 35min

Though Professor Kozlowski admittedly did not play much further, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag remains his favorite game in the franchise, even if it discards or sidelines many of the gameplay eleme...

31 Dec 20221h 35min

Professor Kozlowski concludes his series on Ray Bradbury by eating crow and admitting that his understanding of Bradbury's art and objectives may be biased by an over-close reading of Fahrenheit 451. ...

3 Dec 202252min