Reanimating grief Robert Morkot

Reanimating grief Robert MorkotThis 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.

The Brazilian Portuguese idea of saudade is often translated as a powerful relative of nostalgia

In pursuit of an answer

which makes something of a break from the orthodox style

film and photography

production decision chains and audience participation processes

and family memories

" one that draws principally on the intersection between landscape and historical/prehistorical time

the book moves beyond legal and institutional change to consider the political consequences the Europeanisation of LGBT rights has for people’s lived realities

and forests

it covers everything from wizards and witches to UFOs and internet fanfiction

and in film series such as Beck and Wallander

With a blend of wisdom and wit