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Improvisation as Art traces how modernitys emphasis on inventiveness has changed the meaning of improvisation; and how the ideals and laws that led improvisation to be banned from high art in the eighteenth century simultaneously enabled the inventive reintegration of improvisation into modernism. After an in-depth exploration of contemporary theoretical contentions surrounding improvisation, Landgraf examines how the new emphasis on inventiveness affects the understanding of improvisation in the emerging aesthetic and anthropological discourses of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He first focuses on accounts of improvisational performances by Moritz, Goethe, and Fernow and reads them alongside the aesthetics of autonomy as it develops at the same time. In its second half, the book investigates how the problem of planning art receives a different treatment in German Romanticism. The final chapter focuses on the writings of Heinrich von Kleist where improvisation presents a central aesthetic principle. Kleists figurations of improvisation recognize the anthropological predicament of the self in modern society and the social constraints that invite and often force individuals to improvise.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Improvisation as Art
• Author: Edgar Landgraf
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9781441146946
• ISBN: 1441146946
• ID: 04377253
• Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
• Weight: 350 g
• Dimensions: 143 × 221 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. May 2011

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