What does conscious stream mean?

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can anybody tell me ? :)

Answer 1

In literary criticism, stream of consciousness denotes a literary technique which seeks to describe an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes. Stream-of-consciousness writing is strongly associated with the modernist movement. Its introduction in the literary context, transferred from psychology, is attributed to May Sinclair.

Stream-of-consciousness writing is usually regarded as a special form of interior monologue and is characterized by associative (and at times dissociative) leaps in syntax and punctuation that can make the prose difficult to follow, tracing as they do a character's fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings. Stream of consciousness and interior monologue must be clearly distinguished from dramatic monologue, where the speaker is addressing an audience or a third person, and is used chiefly in poetry or drama. In stream of consciousness, the speaker's thought processes are more often depicted as overheard (or addressed to oneself) and is primarily a fictional device.

The earliest precedent of any literary work using this technique is possibly Ovid's Metamorphoses in ancient Rome. Sir Thomas Browne's discourse The Garden of Cyrus (1658,) with its rapid, unconnected association of objects, geometrical shapes and numerology, may upon close examination be considered one of the earliest examples of stream of consciousness writing. Some of the works of Gyula Krudy (The Adventures of Sindbad) also employ a technique that can in many respects be considered the forerunner of stream of consciousness. Further examples of the development of this style are The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, (1760), The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe (1837/1838) and Édouard Dujardin's Les Lauriers sont coupés (1888). Tolstoy used something similar to the stream-of-consciousness technique in Anna Karenina (1877) in the portions leading to the climax; another early example is Arthur Schnitzler's 1900 short story Leutnant Gustl. Stream of consciousness writing gained rapid prominence in the twentieth century, particularly through the writings of Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and William Faulkner

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Answer 2

Do you mean 'stream of consciousness' as applied in literary works by William Faulkner and James Joyce? I think it's a term which means writing on and on while the author was conscious of what's going on, to whom, why, etc. regarding related characters, scenes and plots in the text.

Answer 3

Stream of consciousness is thinking in words. It also refers to the semi-constant internal mono-dialogue one has with oneself at a conscious or semi-conscious level.

Answer 4

do you mean in the biological sense of the phrase? it means the stream of information from the internal&external enviroment that enters your consciousness.

Answer 5

stream of consciousness is one's train of thougnt