Stream of consciousness: * phrase used by William James in 1890 to describe the unbroken flow of thought and awareness of the waking mind * a special mode of narration that undertakes to capture the full spectrum and the continuous flow of a character's mental process * sense perceptions mingle with conscious and half-conscious thoughts and memories, experiences, feelings and random associations * in a literary context used to describe the narrative method where novelists describe the unspoken thoughts and feelings of their characters without resorting to objective description or conventional dialogue * Eduard Dujardin's Les lauriers sont coupés credited by Joyce as the first example of this technique * 'interior monologue' an alternate term
Example:
Anything by Virginia Wolff
Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard submitted by Nathan Stewart