Grief, Identity, and the Arts

A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Expressions of Grief
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-15308-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 586 g

Reihe: Death in History, Culture, and Society

Death 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 Placzkiewicz, Bavjola Shatro, Caroline Supply, Nicolette van den Bogerd, Eric Venbrux, Janneke Weijermars, Miriam Wendling, and Mariske Westendorp.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lambrecht, Bram

Wendling, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

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

Über Autor(innen)

Bram Lambrecht, Ph.D. (2017, KU Leuven) is assistant professor at Ghent University. His research focuses on translation, poetry, and popular culture in the Low Countries of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He has a particular interest in poetry of mourning.

Miriam Wendling, Ph.D. (2012, University of Cambridge) is a research associate at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on music and liturgy for death in Germany and the Low Countries in the Middle Ages.