Rhetoric of Lamentation from Antiquity to Modernity

We examine lament & lamentation as a language and code of world artistic culture through the prism of language, music, literature, plastic arts and gesture.Our primary goal is to synthesize and develop scholarly and practical experience in this area of ​​research, drawing on music, poetry, literature, ritual folklore, the visual arts, and contemporary artistic practices. By focusing on the contrasting emotional and situational sensations and expressive meanings of lamentation and wailing across a broad timeline, spanning from antiquity to the present, we have brought together for the first time a wide range of specialists on Europe, Asia, and Latin America studies. The established lens of interdisciplinary research on lamentation, from ritual to the modern concept of musical and literary works, has revealed this global cultural phenomenon in the diversity of traditional and authorial reflections. Particular attention is given to the traditions of female lamentation.