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.

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