Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the way cultural works reanimate the dead in the form of ghosts, memories or scenes of mourning, and uses critical and creative writing to express grief's subjectivity and uniqueness. It covers classic texts from Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to works by Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Enda Walsh, Sally Rooney and Maggie O'Farrell. The book argues that the return of the dead in theatre and fiction is an act of memorial and an expression of love that illustrates the relationship between art, enchantment and impossibility.
By:
William McEvoy
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781526176691
ISBN 10: 1526176696
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 06 November 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1 Genealogies of grief: classic reanimations 2 Animate objects of mourning 3 Grief, fiction, passion 4 Dead forms, living characters 5 Burying the living and the dead 6 Musical afterlives 7 Mothersongs Conclusion. Impossible reanimations References Index -- .
William McEvoy is Associate Professor of Drama and English at the University of Sussex
