Stream of Consciousness in Modern Novels: A Deep Dive into James Joyce's Ulysses, Dispense di Inglese

Scarica Stream of Consciousness in Modern Novels: A Deep Dive into James Joyce's Ulysses e più Dispense in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! MODERN NOVEL AND THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS NOVEL “Modernism” usually refers to those novelists who actually experimented with new forms and who, while focusing on the mental process that develop in the human mind, tried to explore them through what is called the stream of consciousness technique. There is a distinction between the stream of consciousness and the interior monologue. - The stream of consciousness is a literary technique ( invented by William James), which consists in reproducing the free flow of thoughts, feelings and sensations of the characters without any comment by the author. - The interior monologue is the instrument used to translate the free flow of thoughts into words which can be direct or indirect. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf exploited it more fully, although through different ways: ● Joyce went further in experimentation by using the “direct interior monologue”, through which he shifted from thought to thought, without any apparent connection of verb, subject or even punctuation. ● Woolf used a more repetitive style and the so-called “indirect interior monologue”, which provides more rational links for the association of ideas. “Modernism” usually refers to those novelists who actually experimented with new forms and who, while focusing on the mental process that develop in the human mind, tried to explore them through what is called the stream of consciousness technique. There is a distinction between the stream of consciousness and the interior monologue. - The stream of consciousness is a literary technique ( invented by William James), which consists in reproducing the free flow of thoughts, feelings and sensations of the characters without any comment by the author. - The interior monologue is the instrument used to translate the free flow of thoughts into words which can be direct or indirect. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf exploited it more fully, although through different ways: ● Joyce went further in experimentation by using the “direct interior monologue”, through which he shifted from thought to thought, without any apparent connection of verb, subject or even punctuation. 1 ● Woolf used a more repetitive style and the so-called “indirect interior monologue”, which provides more rational links for the association of ideas. FOCUS ON JAMES JOYCE He is considered the greatest but also the most complicated writer of the 20th century. He was