Tag: Grief

December 27, 2024

Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres

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Free Download Fintan Walsh, "Performing Grief in Pandemic Theatres "
English | ISBN: 1009464817 | 2024 | 74 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This Element explores how theatre responded to the death and loss produced by the COVID-19 pandemic, by innovating forms and spaces designed to support us in grief. It considers how theatre grieved for itself, for the dead, for lost ways of living, while also imagining and enacting new modes of being together. Even as it reckoned with its own demise, theatre endeavoured to collectivise grief by performing a range of functions more commonly associated with funerary, health and social care services, which buckled under restrictions and neglect. These pandemic theatres show how grief cannot only be let mourn over individual losses in private, but how it must also seep into the public sphere to fight to save critical services, institutions, communities and art forms, including theatre itself.

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December 15, 2024

Ojibwe Singers Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion

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Free Download Michael D. McNally, "Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion"
English | 2009 | pages: 265 | ISBN: 0873516419, 0195134648 | PDF | 1,8 mb
In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct native people.

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November 26, 2024

Grief and English Renaissance Elegy

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Free Download G. W. Pigman III, "Grief and English Renaissance Elegy"
English | 1985 | pages: 192 | ISBN: 0521268710 | PDF | 4,5 mb
For most of the sixteenth century, English poets were clearly anxious about the grief expressed in their funeral poems and often rebuked themselves for indulging in it, but towards the end of the century this defensiveness about mourning became less pressing and persistent. The shift is part of a wider cultural change which has escaped recognition: the emergence of a more compassionate attitude towards the process of mourning. In charting the development of elegy this book analyses poems by Surrey, Spenser, Jonson, Henry King and Milton, and also surveys a wide range of forgotten verse, both English and neo-Latin, as well as letter-writing handbooks and moral-theological tracts. The book culminates in a detailed study of the most famous elegy in the language, Milton’s Lycidas.

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