Granular modernism This book understands the way that some Modernist texts put themselves together as a way of pulling themselves apart. In this volume Beci Carver offers a new way of reading Modernist novels and poems by drawing attention to the anomalies that make them difficult to summarise or simplify. Carver proposes that rather than trying to find the shapes of narrative or argument in their writing the Granular Modernists namely Joseph Conrad William Gerhardie Evelyn Waugh Henry Green T.S. Eliot W.H. Auden and Samuel Beckett experiment in certain of their works in finding the shapelessness of a moment in history that increasingly confidently called itself modern which was to call itself shapeless. The project of Modernism in the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century was to find a story to tell about an era full of beginnings. The project of Granular Modernism was to find a way of turning the inchoateness of the modern moment into art