{"product_id":"unserious-ecocriticism-jessica-landau-9798895060155","title":"Unserious Ecocriticism: Humor, Play \u0026 Environmental Destruction in Art \u0026 Visual Culture","description":"Climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental injustice are complex, messy, and gravely important issues. In addressing these concerns, traditional ecocriticism understandably has taken itself very seriously. \u003ci\u003eUnserious Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e, by contrast, highlights alternative responses to the challenges of environmental collapse and catastrophe. By theorizing an unserious ecocriticism, the essays, artworks, and other contributions in this volume validate and empower alternatives to mainstream environmentalism, scholarship, and artmaking. The essays, artworks, and non-traditional scholarly formats of this edited collection demonstrate that the creative tools available to artists and those who study them are particularly well positioned to inventively disrupt normative modes of ecocritical presentation and environmentalist thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Rather than approach environmental crises through tragic and dire warnings, contributors take seriously the unexpected or easily dismissed, play with format and form, embrace the bodily and abject, take pleasure in their subjects of study, have fun, and crack jokes. In \u003ci\u003eUnserious Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e, humor, playfulness, parody, and irreverence become tools to challenge expectations, cope with complicated problems, and imagine new futures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Edited by Jessica Landau and Maria Lux, with a foreword by Aaron Sachs and contributions from Allie ES Wist, Deke Weaver, Kathleen McDermott, Annie Ronan, Kimiko Matsumura, Ina Linge, Paula Kupfer, Craig Carey, Anna Ialeggio, Topher Lineberry, Stentor Danielson, Patrick Gonder, Mathew Teti, Nicole Seymour, with Emily Eliza Scott, Rob Gioielli, and Jenny Price, Phaan Howng, and Jennifer Schell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Landau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798895060155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amherst College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 389\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Jessica Landau","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46747782414591,"sku":"9798895060155","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb2ea923-3a8d-431b-af60-eeebdd072b8f.jpg?v=1743584720","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unserious-ecocriticism-jessica-landau-9798895060155","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}