Reanimating grief: waking the dead in literature, theatre and performance
Auteur :
McEvoy, William
Éditeur :
Manchester University Press
ISBN :
9781526176691
Date de publication :
30 juil. 2024
Dimensions :
21,6 x 13,8 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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. -- .