What is Stream of consciousness writing?
'''Stream of consciousness''' is a term used in [[literary criticism]] for a literary technique that reports the thought processes of a person. If it is done in context with the surrounding world it is called interior or internal [[monologue]]. That means it is unspoken, and in some cases could not be spoken. For example, in [[Mikhail Bulgakov]]'s ''Heart of a Dog'' (1925) the first chapter is entirely based on the dog's unspoken thoughts on the world about him.<ref>Bulgakov, Mikhail [1925] 1968. ''Heart of a Dog''. NY: Picador & London Pan Books.</ref> Stream-of-consciousness writing is typical for the [[Modernist literature|modernist movement]]. The term was coined by [[William James]] in 1890 in his ''Principles of Psychology''. The use of the term in literature is [[:wikt:attribute|attributed]] to [[May Sinclair]]. Several famous works that employ stream of consciousness are: * [[Édouard Dujardin]]'s ''[[Les Lauriers sont coupés]]'' (1888) * [[Arthur Schnitzler]]'s ''[[Leutnant Gustl]]'' (1901) * [[Nadine Gordimer]]'s ''[[July's People]]'' * Shikibu's ''[[The Tale of Genji]]'' * [[Lewis Grassic Gibbon]]'s ''[[Sunset Song]]''.{{Fact|date=May 2007}} * [[Dorothy Richardson]]'s ''[[Pilgrimage (novel sequence)|Pilgrimage]]'' (1915-67) * [[James Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' (in particular [[Molly Bloom's Soliloquy]]), as well as ''[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]'' * [[Samuel Beckett]]'s ''[[Trilogy]]'' * [[Virginia Woolf]]'s ''[[Mrs. Dalloway]]'', ''[[To the Lighthouse]]'' and ''[[The Waves]]'' * [[William Faulkner]]'s ''[[The Sound and the Fury]]'' and ''[[As I Lay Dying]]'' * [[T. S. Eliot|T.S. Eliot's]] ''[[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]]'' * [[Jack Kerouac]]’s ''[[On the Road]]'' *[[J.D. Salinger]] ''[[Seymour: An Introduction]]'' *Sam Selvon's ''The Lonely Londonders'' *[[Marcel Proust]]'s ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'' *[[William S. Burroughs]]'s ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' == References == {{reflist}} {{lit-stub}} [[Category:Literature]]