Directions:
In the first 3 chapters of Lois Tyson’s book, Critical Theory Today, she applies psychoanalytic, Marxist, and feminist criticism to The Great Gatsby. For many of you, watching Tyson work her theoretical magic (even if you disagree with her perspective) on Gatsby was cool and all, but perhaps you never read Gatsby, or perhaps you missed the movie when it was on Netflix. Either way, one cannot deny the cultural impact (good or bad) Fitzgerald’s novel has had on the world. It has been published in 42 different languages since it was first published in 1925. It has maintained renowned worldwide success as one of the most influential novels of the 20th century.
So, now is your chance to apply the first three lenses to The Mosquito Coast. Everything is fresh. Even if you have read TMC, watched the film adaptation, or even caught the TV series on Apple TV, I think it is a great text to use in order to get some practice with applying theory to texts. Like TGG for Tyson, TMC for me is a text with which I am extremely familiar. I wrote extensively about TMC in graduate school, and I studied Paul Theroux and other late 20th century novelists as part of my graduate degree. I am not trying to sound pretentious. If you were wondering why I chose TMC, this is my reasoning. As for you as the writer of this essay, finding your why for this essay is equally important.
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