Reanimating grief

• Verfasst von: McEvoy, William [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Reanimating grief
• Titelzusatz: waking the dead in literature, theatre and performance
• Verf.angabe: William McEvoy
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: xi, 196 Seiten
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-7669-1
• Schlagwörter: (s)Literatur / (s)Theater / (s)Trauer <Motiv> / (s)Tod <Motiv> / (s)Erinnerung <Motiv>
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: McEvoy, William: Reanimating Grief. - 1st ed.. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024. - 1 online resource (209 pages)
• RVK-Notation: EC 5410
• K10plus-PPN: 190332341X

Abstract

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning. Combining expressive and analytical writing, it offers a critical poetics of loss to show how ghosts, scenes of mourning, memories of reading or viewing, and acoustic fragments, all reanimate the dead in different ways.

Abstract

Front matter -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Genealogies of grief: classic reanimations -- Animate objects of mourning -- Grief, fiction, passion -- Dead forms, living characters -- Burying the living and the dead -- Musical afterlives -- Mothersongs -- Conclusion: impossible reanimations -- Bibliography -- Index.