Stream of consciousness...who was famous for it?

[Spoooon]

Anyone know? I think she was the first to write in that style. I'll know the name if I see it.

 

[Mikal]

How about a he? James Joyce. Ulysses.

 

[Spoooon]

I'm pretty sure it was a she.

 

[happykitten]

Virginia Woolf does...

Soup isn't ready yet,
~kitten >^.^<

 

[Mikal]

Who's afraid of her, anyway?

 

[CPBrownson]

That's right, James Joyce was the first.

 

[Siva]

Katherine Anne Porter?

 

[Mikal]

 

[Spoooon]

I think the person I studied was Virginia Woolf. Though, there may not have been a first per se. It was a long time ago that I read her.

 

[Mikal]

Nothing but a thang.... Now, what brought this question on?

 

[Clinotus]

Alternatives for your query:

stream of consciousness (literary technique for recording the thoughts)
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stream of consciousness
n., pl. streams of consciousness.
A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.
Psychology. The conscious experience of an individual regarded as a continuous, flowing series of images and ideas running through the mind.
stream'-of-con'scious·ness (str&ccedil;m'&amp;#601;v-k&amp;#335;n'sh&amp;#601;s-n&amp;#301;s) adj.
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stream of consciousness, literary technique for recording the thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to their logical association or narrative sequence. The writer attempts to reflect all the forces affecting the psychology of a character at a single moment. Introduced by the French writer Edouard Dujardin in We'll to the Woods No More (1888), the technique was used notably by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner.

 

[Spoooon]

&quot;James Joyce's Ulysses (1922) experiments in types of stream-of-consciousness narrative, while Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925) is an example of a series of interior monologues:

It seemed to her as she drank the sweet stuff that she was opening long windows, stepping out into some garden. But where? The clock was striking--one, two, three: how sensible the sound was; compared with all this thumping; like Septimus himself. She was falling asleep.&quot;

Looks like Joyce was before Woolf, but Mrs. Dalloway was the story I read in 10th grade. We were talking about it at work, and I was leaning toward Virginia Woolf, but just couldn't remember.

 

[Mikal]

Excellent! This is the kind of discussion we need more of here!

 

[happykitten]

Do I win a prize?

Eating her dinner from a can,
~kitten >^.^<

 

[Jothaxe]

Cool thread Spoooon

Have any of you ever tried to read Joyce's Finnegan's Wake? I consider myself a good reader, but I just couldnt get through it on my own.

Most of the time I was reading it, my jaw was wide open in disbelief! I still dont know whether to think the book is a work of pure insanity, or genius. Anybody else have an opinion on this?

 

[happykitten]

Jothaxe ~ I've tried... but, unfortunately, I just couldn't finish it. Personally, I think the book is a work of genius, but you'd have to be insane to read it...

Not a big Hemingway fan either,
~kitten >^.^<

 

[mundania]

When did William Faulkner do his &quot;Sound and The Fury&quot;?

 

[Spoooon]

<< Have any of you ever tried to read Joyce's Finnegan's Wake? I consider myself a good reader, but I just couldnt get through it on my own. >>


You might try it again. You'd be surprised what a difference a year or two might make. I remember trying to read Silas Marner when I was in 9th grade. It was just one of the books my dad had laying around. I gave it up as a lost cause after a few chapters. Now, it's no big deal. I don't like the book though, but it wasn't quite as bad as the first time.