How not to make a human : pets, feral children, worms, sky burial, oysters / Karl Steel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steel, Karl, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]

Summary:

"How Not to Make a Human seeks to provide a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of human particularity via a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet-keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, interest in the edibility of the human body, sky burials, Chaucer, and oysters, from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with underutilized cultural models in which humans play a humbler part than they have tended to in the last several centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Pets

Isolated and feral children

Food for worms

Food for birds

Oysters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-6001-1

OCLC:

1107150952