Quercus Soul — Poland’s Oak-Bound Memory
Lecture on the Symbolic Life of the Oak in Polish Literature You, who sit before me in clean lecture halls […]
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Lectures
A series of literature lectures in a broad sweep, from Ireland to Poland and further into the world: epics and gospels, classics, modern novels, poems, plays. Close reading meets history and craft, tracing how sentences carry faith, desire, and power—book by book, voice by voice.
These lectures span the early 2000s to the present: I wrote and delivered them across that period, and I continue to add to the series today. Some are translations of earlier work written in Polish; others were composed in English, mainly from 2012 onward.
Trifling with the Antichrist
Lecture about the peculiar affliction of Russian literature. You and I sit under light that pretends neutrality, while every desk,
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