Granular Modernism

Granular Modernism offers a new way of reading modernist texts, by drawing attention to the anomalies that make them difficult to summarise or simplify.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Conrad's Roving Eye


• Wasting Time in Gerhardie, Waugh and Green


• Miscellany in Eliot and Auden


• Waste Management in Beckett's Watt


• Conclusion: Against the Grain

About the author

Beci Carver is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at University College London.

Summary

Granular Modernism offers a new way of reading modernist texts, by drawing attention to the anomalies that make them difficult to summarise or simplify.

Additional text

a fine monograph ... witty and thought-provoking.

Product details

• Authors: Beci Carver, Beci (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Carver, Carver Beci
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2014
• EAN: 9780198709923
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870992-3
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; History, HISTORY / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form