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Reanimating Grief : Waking the Dead in Literature, Theatre and Performance / William McEvoy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McEvoy, William, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grief in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Edition:
- 1ST ED.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781526188274
- 1526188279
- 9781526176707
- 152617670X
- OCLC:
- 1445428541
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