Though Ecocriticism-as-such is just an itty bitty baby theory these days, it got its start back in the day, with a dude named Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau wasn't the best student. And he didn't com...

Ecocriticism is a theory still in diapers. It didn't officially get going until 1994 or so. Which means that most of the big players in Ecocriticism aren't actually literary critics (yet)—like Th...

There's really just one debate in Ecocriticism today. It centers around this question: What is nature? But what does this philosophical-sounding debate have to do with the study of literature? Well...

Ecocriticism can seem like it's all over the planet—er, we mean, all over the place. And it's true; the theory has got some issues with focusing its attention on a particular topic, or moving in...

What is literature? It's alive. An ecocritic believes that literature is a type of living, breathing being. Like any other animal, then, storytelling evolves—particularly as scientific knowledge...