Skip to Content

Improvisation and Literature: A Brief Guide

Rob Wallace

Published: 2010-05-25

This article gives a general overview of the relationship between improvisation and literature by focusing on oral traditions, beat poetry, narrative representations of identity, and sound poetry, amongst other things. The article also includes a number of suggestions for further reading.

Available Files

  • Improvisation_and_Literature.pdf

    82 KB | application/pdf

    Download
  • improvisation_literature_guide.pdf

    76 KB | application/pdf

    Download

Listening itself, an improvisative act engaged in by everyone, announces a practice of active engagement with the world, where we sift, interpret, store and forget, in parallel with action and fundamentally articulated with it ("Mobilitas Animi" 113).

– George E. Lewis