Stream of Consciousness

MEG - 03: BRITISH NOVEL

ASSIGNMENT 2015- 2016

 Max. Marks: 100

What do you understand by the term ‘Stream of Consciousness’, explain with reference to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

        In literature, stream of consciousness is a method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters. The term was initially coined by a psychologist William James in his research “The Principles of Psychology”.             
          This method is in evidence at many places in A Portrait, more so in the opening and the closing pages of the novel. The emphasis in the ‘stream of consciousness’ method is on the psychic being of the characters and the associative mode is kept in the forefront of Stephen’s consciousness. This is at the heart of the novel as it is both its subject matter and its major structuring mechanism. 

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