ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The term ‘stream of consciousness’ was first coined by psychologist William James in The Principles of Psychology in 1893, when he describes it thusly: “consciousness as an uninterrupted ‘flow’: ‘a ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term was first used by the psychologist William James in The Principles of Psychology (1890). As the psychological novel developed in the 20th century, some writers attempted to capture the total flow of their characters’ consciousness, rather than limit themselves to rational thoughts.

Detailed explanation-3: -Consciousness is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks. But we do far more than emphasize things, and unite some, and keep others apart.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term was first applied in a literary context in The Egoist, April 1918, by May Sinclair, in relation to the early volumes of Dorothy Richardson’s novel sequence Pilgrimage.

Detailed explanation-5: -Regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century, he championed a new style of writing based upon the stream of consciousness technique: when the written form attempts to mimic a character’s immediate flow of thoughts and feelings, adding a heightened sense of realism to the plot.