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art and grief
Author_William McEvoy
bereavement
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coffins
coping with loss
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farce
fiction
fragments
ghost
memory
modes of mourning
resurrection
revival
transgenre
uncanny
Product details
- ISBN 9781526194695
- Weight: 250g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
William McEvoy is Associate Professor of Drama and English at the University of Sussex
