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Book SynopsisDeath and grief have often elicited the response of creativity, from elegies and requiems to memorial architecture. Such artistic expressions of grief form the focus of Grief, Identity, and the Arts, which brings together scholars from the disciplines of musicology, literature, sociology, film studies, social work, and museum studies. While presenting one or more case studies from a range of artistic disciplines, historical periods, or geographical areas, each chapter addresses the interdependence of grief and identity in the arts. The volume as a whole shows how artistic expressions of grief are both influenced by and contribute to constructions of religious, national, familial, social, and artistic identities. Contributors to this volume: Tammy Clewell, Lizet Duyvendak, David Gist, Maryam Haiawi, Owen Hansen, Maggie Jackson, Christoph Jedan, Bram Lambrecht, Carlo Leo, Wolfgang Marx, Tijl Nuyts, Despoina Papastathi, Julia Płaczkiewicz, Bavjola Shatro, Caroline Supply, Nicolette van den Bogerd, Eric Venbrux, Janneke Weijermars, Miriam Wendling, and Mariske Westendorp.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on the Editors and Contributors 1 Grief, Identity, and the Arts in the West: An Introduction Bram Lambrecht and Miriam Wendling PART 1: Collective Religious Identities Introduction to Part 1 2 The Arts of Inclusion and Exclusion: Funerary Art Taken from the Example of the Municipal Cemetery Tongerseweg Maastricht Christoph Jedan, Mariske Westendorp and Eric Venbrux 3 Mary’s Grief in 18th-Century Passion Oratorios: Some Notes on Its Confessional and Interconfessional Aspects Maryam Haiawi 4 The Composer as Intellectual: Biblical Interpretation and Jewish Martyrdom in Alexandre Tansman’s Isaïe le prophète Nicolette van den Bogerd PART 2: Personal Religious Identities Introduction to Part 2 5 Reaching Towards Heaven: An Examination of Robert Schumann’s Views About Religion in his Requiem in D-Flat Major, Op. 148 Owen Hansen 6 “The Rustling in the Trees Is / Not the Rustling in the Trees / It Is Your Voice” Mystical Relationality and the Liquid Poetics of Postsecular Mourning in Joost Baars’s Binnenplaats [Enclosure] (2017) Tijl Nuyts PART 3: National Identities Introduction to Part 3 7 Here is Their Spirit: Contemporary Expressions of Grief at the Australian War Memorial David Gist 8 Mary Vitali “fidanzata dei morti”: An Investigation into the Genre of Grief Memoirs in Gabriele d’Annunzio’s Fiume Carlo Leo 9 Politics, Memory, and Grief in Contemporary Albanian Autobiographic Writing Live to Tell; A True Story of Religious Persecution in Communist Albania by Fr Zef Pllumi Bavjola Shatro PART 4: Family Identities/The Inner Circle Introduction to Part 4 10 Conjugal Mourning in French Neo-Latin Poetry: A Reading of Louis Des Masures’s Carmen 29 Caroline Supply 11 The Empty Chair in Children’s Picture Books: More Than Just a “Classic Image” Maggie Jackson 12 The Horror of Grief: Monstrous Effects of Unaddressed Grief in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook Julia Paczkiewicz 13 Dutch Mourning Poetry in the 19th Century: The Case of Prudens van Duyse’s Natalia (1842) Janneke Weijermars PART 5: Social/Societal Identities Introduction to Part 5 14 Mourning Someone You Never Knew: A Gesture of Civilization Lizet Duyvendak 15 Contested Legacies of Modernist Memorialization: The May 4 Memorial Tammy Clewell PART 6: Identities of a Genre/Artistic Identity Introduction to Part 6 16 The Elegiac Poetry of Kiki Dimoula and the Visual Arts Despoina Papastathi 17 Musical Representations of Grief and Death Wolfgang Marx Index
