Reanimating Grief: Waking the Dead in Literature, Theatre and Performance

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.

William McEvoy is Associate Professor of Drama and English at the University of Sussex