James Joyce - vita e opere - the Stream of Consciousness, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica James Joyce - vita e opere - the Stream of Consciousness e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! The Stream of Consciousness A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. The term was introduced by William James in his Principles of Psychology (1890). It is the result f the of the interactions of a series of important factors, such as:  The influence of theories of Sigmund Freud  The theorisation of the difference between objective and subjective  A new conception of human consciousness  The sense of anxiety, fragmentation and loss caused by the First World War James Joyce He was a famous novelist and one of the greater innovators of 20th century prose. He was born in Dublin in 1882. In 1898 Joyce started studying Italian, French and English at university College of Dublin. One of his famous works is Dubliners (wrote in 1914), a collection of stories. During the First World War, he started to work to his masterpieces, Ulysses. In this work he used the stream of consciousness. He thought that human consciousness is a constantly flowing stream, in which past and present events and perception coexist without boundaries. The stream of Consciousness can be write using two different narrative technique: direct interior monologue or indirect interior monologue. Direct interior monologue presents the thoughts of the character in a direct and uncontrolled way. Indirect interior monologue shows the workings of the mind of a character using a 3rd person omniscient narrator. He died in Zurich in 1941. Joyce’s literary works reveal his complex relationship with Ireland, his country that he both loved and hated. For Joyce Ireland was a country dominated by stagnation and stasis, but was also his main source of inspiration.