Improvisation as art : conceptual challenges, historical perspectives /: conceptual challenges, historical perspectives. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edgar Landgraf.
• Authors: Landgraf, Edgar
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Conceptualizing Improvisation; 1 Performance, Inventiveness and Improvisation: Theoretical Contentions; 1.1 Derrida's Inventiveness; 1.2 Calculating Incalculability: The Neocybernetic Alternative; 1.3 From Iteration to Improvisation; 2 Indescribability, Perfection, Unpredictability: Improvisation and Aesthetic Autonomy; 2.1 Instrumentalizing Improvisation? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 2.2 Improvisation and Aesthetic Autonomy; 2.3 Improvisation and Aesthetic Perfection: Karl Philipp Moritz; 2.4 Improvisation and the Artist-Genius. 3 Staged Improvisation: The Generative Principles of Romantic Irony3.1 Reframing the Space of the Theater; 3.2 Staged Improvisation; 3.3 Romantic Principles of Artistic Production; 3.4 Social Bearings; 4 Improvisation, Agency, Autonomy: Heinrich von Kleist and the Modern Predicament; 4.1 Facilitating Prohibitions; 4.2 Improvisation as Political Practice; 4.3 The Incalculability of Calculation; 4.4 Kleist's Pedagogical Program; Conclusion: Experiencing Improvisation as Art; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Z.
• Publisher Details: New York, New York London [England] : Continuum International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (176 pages)
• Subjects: 700.1030973; Improvisation in art -- History; Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century; Aesthetics, Modern -- 19th century; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German; Aesthetics, Modern; Improvisation in art; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441199324; 1441199322
• Related ISBNs: 9781628929577; 1441146946; 9781441146946
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 4, 2014).
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