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Stream of Consciousness

Stream of Consciousness.

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Stream of Consciousness

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  1. Stream of Consciousness • Definition: Stream of consciousness is characterized by a flow of thoughts and images, which may not always appear to have a coherent structure or cohesion. The plot line may weave in and out of time and place, carrying the reader through the life span of a character or further along a timeline to incorporate the lives (and thoughts) of characters from other time periods. Writing in which a character's perceptions, thoughts, and memories are presented in an apparently random form, without regard for logical sequence, chronology, or syntax. Often such writing makes no distinction between various levels of reality--such as dreams, memories, imaginative thoughts or real sensory perception. • (strēm'əv-kŏn'shəs-nĭs) • http://www.oxfordadvancedlearnersdictionary.com/dictionary/stream-of-consciousness

  2. Literary Examples • "Such fools we all are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can't be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life. In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.” -Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway • "I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me and Darl.” –William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying • “The old windows of the posadas 2 glancing eyes a lattice hid for her lover to kiss the iron and the wineshops half open at night and the castanets and the night we missed the boat at Algeciras the watchman going about serene with his lamp and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and the pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.” –James Joyce, Ulysess

  3. Literary Analysis 1. Virginia Woolf’s purpose in Mrs. Dalloway was to explain her feelings and thoughts that moment in June. Woolf flashes back in her mind to a day in London that seemed to bring up many emotions. Woolf’s purpose relates to “Stream of Consciousness” because the character is telling her thoughts and although it is not mentioned, the thoughts she’s talking about are not necessarily in chronological order. Woolf doesn’t state if the incident being described was true or just a dream. 2. William Faulkner’s novel has many monologues by a very important character, Darl. Faulkner’s purpose of his novel is to tell the story of Darl and his life in an asylum. The book is very confusing and hard to understand because Faulkner wants to make it seem like Darl is crazier than he actually is. The character Darl is crazy in As I Lay Dying, but the dialogue is hard to understand because Faulkner is using “Stream of Consciousness”. Faulkner uses “Stream of Consciousness” to explore and expose unspoken thoughts of the characters and to explore perception and thought as the basis of experience. • James Joyce’s purpose in Ulysesswas to create a book with the entire movement of literature. Joyce’s work is very confusing due to the fact that there are few periods or commas used. It seems as if you read that you’re reading a giant run on sentence. Joyce’s thoughts are all mixed up and the timeline isn’t clear. Joyce used “Stream of Consciousness” to write his novel Ulysessand it is very obvious because it lacks structure and it’s coherent. It makes the novel difficult to understand for anyone, even the most intelligent readers.

  4. Work Cited • Literary Terms and Definitions: S. “Dr. Wheeler’s Website.” October 10, 2010. <http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_s.html > • “Stream of Consciousness” answers.com / Reference Answers. October 10, 2010. < http://www.answers.com/topic/stream-of-consciousness > • “The International Society for the Study of Narrative” Stream of consciousness. October 10, 2010. http://narrative.georgetown.edu/wiki/index.php/Stream_of_consciousness • “Tap Into Your Stream of Consciousness” oprah.com / OPRAH. October 10, 2010. http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Faulkner-101-Stream-of-Consciousness-Journal • “Cummings Study Guides” cummingsstudyguides.com / Ulysses. October 10, 2010 <http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Joyce.html#lastpara>

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