Ulysses | Style

Stream of Consciousness
The stream-of-consciousness novel takes as its subject the interior thought sequence and patterns of associations which distinguish characters from one another. According to A Handbook to Literature, the stream-of-consciousness novel assumes that what matters most about human existence is how it is experienced subjectively. The interior level of experience is idiosyncratic, illogical, and disjointed and the “pattern of free psychological association . . . determines the shifting sequence of thought and feeling.” The work of...

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