in literature, a technique of presenting the character's thoughts and feelings as they develop, as in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and James Joyce's Ulysses; free association.
Style of writing used by many modernists that attempts to portray the inner workings of a character's mind by cataloging or describing the character's thoughts and ideas in rapid succession and without any interpretation or explanation by an outside narrator. So-named by William James, who described human consciousness as a continuous stream of thoughts, impressions, emotions, and ideas. William Faulkner used this style in As I Lay Dying, which forces readers to assemble an overall narrative from the various thoughts, feelings, and observations of fifteen different characters. The stream-of-consciousness style challenged traditional narrative by abandoning the linear form in favor of the more confused and sometimes random jumps of the human mind.
a character's free-flowing thoughts, usually presented without punctuation. Stream of consciousness usually shows the free association of the thoughts of a character.
A phrase coined by William James to describe one's continuous series of ever-changing thoughts. go to glossary index
a writing technique in which long passages of perceptions, thoughts, judgments, feelings, associations, and memories are written down as they occur without being restructured logically or grammatically by the author.
a literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy
The course of one thought leading to another.
An attempt to recreate in words a person's free, natural thought processes. See Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Joyce's Ulysses.
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 and most famous for its use by James Joyce.
"Stream of Consciousness" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 7 February, 1997, during the third season.
"Stream of Consciousness" is an instrumental song recorded by progressive metal band Dream Theater, appearing on their 2003 album Train of Thought. Clocking at 11:16, the song appears as the sixth song on the album, as a direct continuation of Vacant. It can be considered the climax of the album, slowly building up from a simple arpeggio to a powerful apex.
Stream of Consciousness is a concept album by the Italian progressive power metal band Vision Divine. The album was released in 2004 on Metal Blade Records.