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Stream of ConsciousnessStream of ConsciousnessThe term stream-of-consciousness which was coined by William James in Principles of Psychology (1890) is used to indicate a literary approach to the presentation of psychological aspects of characters in fiction. It presents unspoken materials directly from the psyche of the characters, or make the characters tell their own inner thoughts in monologues The realm of life with which stream-of-consciousness novel is concerned is mental and spiritual experience, such as sensations, memories, imaginations, conceptions, intuitions, feelings and the process of association.Dorothy Richardson, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner are usually regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelists. Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury plays a very important role in the stream-of-consciousness novels. He had opened up a new area of life for novel by adding mental functioning and psychic existence to fiction and by creating a novel centered on the core of human experience. Stream of ConsciousnessStream of consciousness writing is a variant of the third person point of view, in which the narrator relates only what is experienced by a character’s mind from moment to moment.Features of ?Stream of Consciousness 1.Presents thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur. 2.It shows a mind at work. 3.It may contain parts that do not seen coherent because that are based on the free association of ideas and feelings of an individuals mind. 4.It is in 3rd person Multiple Point of View. Multiple Point of View: It is one of the literary techniques William Faulkner used, which shows within the same story how the characters reacted differently to the same person or the same situation. The use of this technique gave the story a circular form wherein one event was the center, with various points of view radiating from it. The multiple points of view technique makes the reader recognize the difficulty of arri