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Podcast: Professor Kozlowski Lectures
Episode: An Experiment in Criticism
Description: Professor Kozlowski takes on C. S. Lewis' An Experiment in Criticism to examine the ethical responsibilities of the audience to a work of art or literature, and to discuss how the world of criticism has changed in fifty years. Among other topics, he'll discuss: bad-faith criticism, criticism from marginalized perspectives, intrinsic and extrinsic criticism, and Lewis' own problems with elitist gatekeeping and inflammatory criticism for self-aggrandizement.
Suggested supplementary readings include:
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Achebe's "A...