English Literature / Unit 2 ENL 0125 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Stream of Consciousness
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The idea
Stream of consciousness tries to depict the many thoughts and feelings passing through a mind, usually as interior monologue with loose syntax and irregular punctuation. Earlier writers anticipated it, but it became a major method with the modernists, James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf among them.
In practice
The flow of a mind, on the page.
Where people slip
It is a modernist signature.
Your place on the trail
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