The Role of Lament in the Growth and Eclipse of Roman Epic by 
From Incantation and Lament to Autobiography by 
Message in a Bottle : Lyrical Laments and Emotional Expression in Mandopop by 
Epic and Lament: The Influence of Kobzari on Lirnyky by 
Grieving for the Dead, Grieving for the Living: Funeral Laments of Hakka Women by 
Philosophical Counsel versus Customary Lament in Fourth-Century Christian Responses to Death : The Ritual of Lament and the Rhetoric of Consolation by 
Lament seems to have been universal in the ancient world.
Analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent.
The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama.
This book focuses on the prophetic poetry and prose of the earliest Welsh-language manuscripts.
This collection brings together some twenty Virginia tales wherein hardship is revealed as tragedy, and humor appears as uncanny, illuminating strangeness.
This is the first in-depth study of Chinese bridal laments, a ritual and performative art practiced by Chinese women in premodern times that gave them a rare opportunity to voice their grievances publicly.
This study of the gooi or personal laments in Homer´s Iliad once and for all articulates the poetic techniques regulating this type of speech.
Examines the influence of literacy on the development of different genres of mourning in ancient Greece.
The goal of this book is to present a revised edition of the Sumerian Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur, a lament bewailing the fall of the glorious Ur III kingdom in 2004 B.C.E.
When Crusader armies on their way to the Holy Land attacked Jewish communities in the Rhine Valley, many Jews chose suicide over death at the hands of Christian mobs.
The funeral laments of Upper Egypt have an elaborate and ancient history stretching back more than 5,000 years.
At South Indian village funerals, women cry and lament, men drink and laugh, and untouchables sing and joke to the beat of their drums.
Eloquence in Trouble captures the articulation of several troubled lives in Bangladesh as well as the threats to the very genres of their expression, lament in particular.
The term "wailing culture" includes an array of women's behaviors and beliefs following the death of a member of their ethnic group and is typical of Jewish life in Yemeni culture.
This is a book about death, comprehensive in its discussion of strategies for coping with loss and grief in rural northern Russia.
Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion.
