The Devil and Tom Walker
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
Faust Scenes 20-28
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
Faust Scenes 6-9
Professor Kozlowski discusses scenes 6-9 of Goethe's Faust, Part One, focusing primarily on Mephistopheles and the bargain/wager struck with Faust.
18 Feb 20211h 4min
Faust Scenes 1-5
Professor Kozlowski discusses the first five scenes of Goethe's Faust, Part One, including the strange and tangled construction of the play, Goethe's biography, similarities to Marlowe's Doctor Faustu...
16 Feb 202158min
Milton's Paradise Lost
Professor Kozlowski dissects the first Book of Milton's Paradise Lost, and constructs an argument that Milton is making a case for the royalist faction in the 17th-century British Civil War. Is Satan...
10 Feb 20211h 27min
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
Professor Kozlowski discusses Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the famous Elizabethan treatment of the Faust legend by the contemporary of Shakespeare. For anyone following along online, this rea...
3 Feb 20211h 23min
Dante's Inferno
Professor Kozlowski presents a crash course in the medieval worldview, in which he discusses the basic tenets of the Christian gospel, and discusses Dante's Inferno in terms of its alignment with medi...
2 Feb 20211h 21min
19th Century German Emigration
Professor Kozlowski tackles listener Kit's question: What ideas did German immigrants bring to America in the 19th Century. Predictably, the answer is neither straightforward nor simple - but Profess...
2 Feb 20211h 28min
