Grief, Identity, and the Arts : A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Expressions of Grief

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 Płaczkiewicz, Bavjola Shatro, Caroline Supply, Nicolette van den Bogerd, Eric Venbrux, Janneke Weijermars, Miriam Wendling, and Mariske Westendorp. Contents Acknowledgements Figures Notes on the Editors and Contributors 1 Grief, Identity, and the Arts in the West: An Introduction 1 The Interplay between Grief and the Arts 2 Histories of Grief 3 Grief, Identity, and the Arts Part 1 Collective Religious Identities Introduction to Part 1 2 The Arts of Inclusion and Exclusion: Funerary Art Taken from the Example 1 Introduction 2 Tongerseweg Cemetery: A Biography 3 Analysis 4 Conclusion 3 Mary’s Grief in 18th-Century Passion Oratorios 1 Introduction 2 Mary’s Grief: Origin and Tradition 3 Mary in Catholic Passion Oratorios 4 Mary in Protestant Passion Oratorios 5 Conclusion Bibliography Primary sources Secondary literature 4 The Composer as Intellectual: Biblical Interpretation and Jewish Martyrdom 1 Universalism, Judaism, and French Jews 2 Alexandre Tansman and France 3 Biblical Interpretation in the Musical Narrative of Isaïe Le Prophète 4 Conclusion Part 2 Personal Religious Identities Introduction to Part 2 5 Reaching towards Heaven: An Examination of Robert Schumann’s 6 “The Rustling in the Trees Is / Not the Rustling in the Trees / It Is Your Voice” 1 Addressing an Enclosure 2 Mystical Markers 3 From Postmodern Relativism to Mystical Relationality 4 Triangulated Address and a Postsecular Poetry of Mourning Part 3 National Identities Introduction to Part 3 7 Here Is Their Spirit: Contemporary Expressions of Grief at the Australian War Memorial 8 Mary Vitali “fidanzata dei morti”: An Investigation into the Genre 9 Politics, Memory, and Grief in Contemporary Albanian Autobiographic Writing 1 Introduction: Religion and Persecution in Communist Albania 2 Zef Pllumi’s Live to Tell: His Memoir, His Mission 3 Grieving for the Dead, Warning the Living 4 (Aiming at) Conclusions 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 Conclusion Acknowledgement 11 The Empty Chair in Children’s Picture Books: More Than Just a “Classic Image” 12 The Horror of Grief: Monstrous Effects of Unaddressed Grief in Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook 13 Dutch Mourning Poetry in the 19th Century: The Case of Prudens van Duyse’s Natalia (1842) 1 Introduction 1 Genre and Style 2 Laus, Luctus, and Consolatio 3 Conclusion Part 5 Social/Societal Identities Introduction to Part 5 14 Mourning Someone You Never Knew: A Gesture of Civilization 1 The Lonely Funeral 2 “A Soft Gesture”: The Duty of Society 3 What Does “Slow Art” Look Like? 4 A Gesture of Civilization 5 Mourning for Someone You Never Knew? 15 Contested Legacies of Modernist Memorialization: The May 4 Memorial Part 6 Identities of a Genre/Artistic Identity Introduction to Part 6 16 The Elegiac Poetry of Kiki Dimoula and the Visual Arts 1 Death, Grief and Poetry: “nekrokēpoi-nekrokēpoi-nekrokēpoi” 2 Photographs, Sculptures, and Paintings in Kiki Dimoula’s Elegiac Poetry 17 Musical Representations of Grief and Death 1 Death-Related Functions of Music 2 The Structural and Stylistic Representation of Death in Western Music 3 Conclusion Name Index Subject Index Place Index Blank Page Blank Page Blank Page Blank Page "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 include: 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 P��aczkiewicz, Bavjola Shatro, Caroline Supply, Nicolette van den Bogerd, Eric Venbrux, Janneke Weijermars, Miriam Wendling, and Mariske Westendorp"-- Provided by publisher "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 include: 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"-- Provided by publisher