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.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on the Editors and Contributors1 Grief, Identity, and the Arts in the West: An IntroductionBram Lambrecht and Miriam WendlingPART 1: Collective Religious IdentitiesIntroduction to Part 12 The Arts of Inclusion and Exclusion: Funerary Art Taken from the Example of the Municipal Cemetery Tongerseweg MaastrichtChristoph Jedan, Mariske Westendorp and Eric Venbrux3 Mary’s Grief in 18th-Century Passion Oratorios: Some Notes on Its Confessional and Interconfessional AspectsMaryam Haiawi4 The Composer as Intellectual: Biblical Interpretation and Jewish Martyrdom in Alexandre Tansman’s Isaïe le prophèteNicolette van den BogerdPART 2: Personal Religious IdentitiesIntroduction to Part 25 Reaching Towards Heaven: An Examination of Robert Schumann’s Views About Religion in his Requiem in D-Flat Major, Op. 148Owen Hansen6 “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 NuytsPART 3: National IdentitiesIntroduction to Part 37 Here is Their Spirit: Contemporary Expressions of Grief at the Australian War MemorialDavid Gist8 Mary Vitali “fidanzata dei morti”: An Investigation into the Genre of Grief Memoirs in Gabriele d’Annunzio’s FiumeCarlo Leo9 Politics, Memory, and Grief in Contemporary Albanian Autobiographic WritingLive to Tell; A True Story of Religious Persecution in Communist Albania by Fr Zef PllumiBavjola ShatroPART 4: Family Identities/The Inner CircleIntroduction to Part 410 Conjugal Mourning in French Neo-Latin Poetry: A Reading of Louis Des Masures’s Carmen 29Caroline Supply11 The Empty Chair in Children’s Picture Books: More Than Just a “Classic Image”Maggie Jackson12 The Horror of Grief: Monstrous Effects of Unaddressed Grief in Jennifer Kent’s The BabadookJulia Paczkiewicz13 Dutch Mourning Poetry in the 19th Century: The Case of Prudens van Duyse’s Natalia (1842)Janneke WeijermarsPART 5: Social/Societal IdentitiesIntroduction to Part 514 Mourning Someone You Never Knew: A Gesture of CivilizationLizet Duyvendak15 Contested Legacies of Modernist Memorialization: The May 4 MemorialTammy ClewellPART 6: Identities of a Genre/Artistic IdentityIntroduction to Part 616 The Elegiac Poetry of Kiki Dimoula and the Visual ArtsDespoina Papastathi17 Musical Representations of Grief and DeathWolfgang MarxIndex