Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0916 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Stream of Consciousness
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The idea
Stream of consciousness renders thought as it occurs, in its own order and without tidying. The glossary has no headword for it. It differs from free indirect discourse in dispensing with the narrator's ordering, so the prose takes on the shape of the mind rather than of a sentence.
In practice
Thought in its own order.
Where people slip
No narrator is tidying it.
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