2006-10-30 18:34:13 · 4 answers · asked by jeremy 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Stream of consciousness, but ya know, it's just struck me that it's 3rd person stream of consciousness. Isn't that verging on the oxymoronic?
2006-10-30 21:17:03 · answer #1 · answered by Qando 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know, it's called, "stream of consciousness", the technique James Joyce presumably coined and used in his works. I'm reading his "Dubliners" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and notice he used it profusely, nearly every paragraph. However, I wonder if it's the same of "flow of thought" I first heard from a professor.
In retrospect, his technique's complex and needs endurance with good literary backgrounds and, most of all, the will to read to appreciate his works.
2006-10-30 19:44:10 · answer #2 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Stream of consciousness". It was picked up by other writers too - but it isn't as easy as it sounds. Demands careful re-writes and the skill to make them sound as tho they haven't been re-written. Works best in "conversational" rather than "literary" English.
2006-10-30 18:40:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
stream of consciousness
2006-10-30 18:36:44 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋