Reading literature through the looking glass of theory.
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
A crazy captain loses a leg to a giant whale. Said crazy captain then gets a ship and fills it with salty characters who love to discuss the meaning of life. Together, they all hunt down the whale...
Animal Farm by George Orwell
In this exciting tale, some pigs lead a revolt against a drunk farmer who doesn't take good care of his farm. They tout the virtues of animalism in a cool and groovy manifesto… but then the pigs...
Watership Down by Richard Adams
This book is like another episode in our hit lit series we've dubbed Humans Behaving Badly. On this episode, it's the bulldozers vs. the bunnies. Our main characters, those rascally rabbits, m...
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Ecocriticism jumps at any text flashing a bit of green, be it a novel, a poem, or a stage drama. And Arthur Miller flashes us some very well-placed bits of nature in Death of a Salesman. So our fav...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
"It's alive!" Yes, doctor, it's alive and it's ugly and it wants to kill you. Why? Well, the creature in Frankenstein is created by unnatural means. It has no mother. So the message is: mess with t...