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Definition of Stream of Consciousness
Stream of consciousness is a style or technique of writing that tries to capture the natural flow of a character's extended thought process, often by incorporating sensory impressions, incomplete ideas, unusual syntax... read full definition
Stream of consciousness is a style or technique of writing that tries to capture the natural flow of a character's extended thought process, often by incorporating... read full definition
Stream of consciousness is a style or technique of writing that tries to capture the natural flow of a character's... read full definition
Chapter 5
Explanation and Analysis—The Narrator's Anecdote:
Along with James Joyce and William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf is perhaps most recognized in the canon of English literature for her consistent use of stream of consciousness. Orlando is no exception, and Woolf regularly employs the stream of consciousness style to freely express Orlando's thoughts and feelings in a languid, uninterrupted manner. For example, in Chapter 5 when Orlando and Shel fall in love and become engaged, the narrator pauses the action to explore Orlando's specific tone of voice when addressing Shel:
“Tell me, Mar,” she would say (and here it must be explained, that when she called him by the first syllable of his first name, she was in a dreamy, amorous, acquiescent mood, domestic, languid a little, as if spiced logs were burning, and it was evening, yet not time to dress, and a thought wet perhaps outside, enough to make the leaves glisten, but a nightingale might be singing even so among the azaleas, two or three dogs barking at distant farms, a cock crowing—all of which the reader should imagine in her voice)—"Tell me, Mar," she would say, "about Cape Horn."
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