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Cover of James Joyce's Ulysses (first edition, 1922), considered a prime example of stream of consciousness writing styles. Stream of consciousness is a literary method of representing the flow of a character's thoughts and sense impressions "usually in an unpunctuated or disjointed form of interior monologue."
Dorothy Miller Richardson (17 May 1873 – 17 June 1957) was a British author and journalist. Author of Pilgrimage, a sequence of 13 semi-autobiographical novels published between 1915 and 1967—though Richardson saw them as chapters of one work—she was one of the earliest modernist novelists to use stream of consciousness as a narrative technique.
Finnegans Wake is an experimental novel that pushes stream of consciousness [401] and literary allusion [402] to their extremes. Although the work can be read from beginning to end, Joyce's writing transforms traditional ideas of plot and character development through his wordplay, allowing the book to be read nonlinearly.
The best-known practitioners of the stream-of-consciousness style in American literature are T.S. Eliot and William Faulkner – both giants in the field. Sometimes, I like it; sometimes, I don’t.
Knut Hamsun's (1859–1952) Hunger (1890) is a groundbreaking modernist novel and Mysteries (1892) pioneers modernist stream of consciousness method. Even earlier precursor to stream of consciousness can be found in Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground (1864). When modernism ends is debatable.
An essay on May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, and 'Stream of Consciousness' A 2001 essay by Leigh Wilson (University of Westminster), from The Literary Encyclopedia; May Sinclair at Library of Congress, with 65 library catalogue records; May Sinclair at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database; Works by May Sinclair at Project Gutenberg
Both authors believed in a certain transcendental, mystical approach to life and writing, where even banal things could be capable of generating deep emotions if one had enough silence and the presence of mind to appreciate them. [218] Woolf and Thoreau were both concerned with the difficulty of human relationships in the modern age. [218]
Stream of consciousness: Early-20th-century fiction consisting of literary representations of quotidian thought, without authorial presence [89] Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce: Impressionism: It influenced by the European Impressionist art movement and subsumed into several other categories.