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In Literary Criticism , stream of consciousness is a Literary Technique which seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose Interior Monologue , or in connection to his or her sensory reactions to external occurrences. Stream-of-consciousness writing is strongly associated with the Modernist Movement . Its introduction in the literary context, transferred from psychology, is attributed to May Sinclair . STYLE CLASSIFICATION Stream-of-consciousness writing is usually regarded as a special form of Interior Monologue and is characterized by associative (and at times dissociative) leaps in syntax and punctuation that can make the prose difficult to follow, tracing a character's fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings. Stream of consciousness and interior monologue are distinguished from Dramatic Monologue , where the speaker is addressing an audience or a third person, and is used chiefly in Poetry or Drama . In stream of consciousness, the speaker's thought processes are more often depicted as overheard in the mind (or addressed to oneself) and is primarily a Fiction al device. The term was first introduced to the field of literary studies from that of psychology by philosopher and psychologist William James , brother of the influential writer Henry James . Several notable works employing stream of consciousness are:
Multi-media The technique is not specifically confined to literary sources, and has been used loosely to describe either separately or in combination with other media. For instance, Travis Trent sings unwritten stream of consciousness lyrics on five of the six songs on the album Stories: His, Mine, Others. Cinema and sketch comedy
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World Wide Web One example of a website that uses the technique is Cognitec/3rd Force , which is the progressive work of an anonymous author known only as "." The site began in the mid 1990s as a series of bizarre and sardonic original passages which was "spoofed" to look like prominent web portals of the early Dot Com Boom . For example, the now defunct "Pathfinder" site (now simply the Time Inc. portal [http://www.pathfinder.com/pathfinder/index.html]) was parodied as "Crapfinder," the "New York Times" became the "New Times York." Because of the site's extensive use of the literary method, transitory and seemingly-unrelated themes became connected through Hyperlink s. These seemed to further reflect the free-flowing thought process of the strangely prolific author. It was later revealed that much of the content consisted of excerpts from the Metafictional novel ''MFU'' (ISBN 188640402X) The novel's desultory narrative structure and breadth of material was sufficient for creating years worth of related material in the form of multiple parodies, faux news reports, and essays, as well as providing prospective readers of the novel an opportunity to "sample" the book. Most of the novel was subsequently released as either readable or searchable on-line [http://c3f.com/mfu1.html . Many online forums have sections for so-called "Off-Topic" discussions. Threads in these forums tend to loosely follow stream-of-consciousness simply by virtue of the fact that multiple people express their own thought processes without hesitation of retribution. This perspective is, of course, controversial since traditional stream-of-consciousness is the result of one person's writing alone. A relatively new website, http://chainofthoughts.com conforms to the stream of consciousness style of writing using Tag Cloud s to shift readers through various seemingly unrelated pages. Following the Virginia Tech Massacre the Website was used as a place of semi-anonymous mourning and was highlighted on the BBC website. 1 Music
Thom Yorke of Radiohead frequently writes songs in this style, especially "A Wolf at the Door" from Hail to the Theif. Rap has many examples, such as:
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