Grief, Identity, and the Arts

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