第十八讲 James Joyce.ppt.ppt

* Stream of consciousness fiction James Joyce Stream of Consciousness * The major innovation of the 20th C. fiction; * Origin of the term from William James (1842 - 1910):( Principles of Psychology, 1890) Consciousness is not like a chain or a chronological series, but like a river or a stream; * The influence of Sigmund Freud (the Subconsciousness), C.G. Jung (Collective Unconsciousness), H. Bergson (intuitive semi-mystical philosophy, “psychological time”); * The main features of Stream of Conscious- ness (presenting the thoughts of a character in the random, seemingly unorganized fashion in which the thinking process occurs) a. Revealing the action or plot through the mental processes of the characters rather than through the commentary of an omniscient author; b. Character development through revelation of extremely personal / typical thought process rather than through the creation of typical characters in typical circumstances; c. Rare correspondence of the action or plot with the real, chronological time, but rather the moving back forth through present time to memories of past events dreams of the future; d. Replacing narration, description, commentary with dramatic interior monologue free association. * Origin in the 1920s Marcel Proust (1871- 1922, France): A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (memories reflections on the life of the French upper classes in the late-19th early 20th C.); James Joyce (1882- 1941, England): Ulysses Finnegans Wake; Virginia Woolf (1882- 1941, England): Mrs Dalloway; William Faulkner (1897- 1962, The U.S.): The Sound and the Fury; Franz Kafka (1883- 1924, Czech) Trial, The Castle; * Origin of the English Stream of Consciousness novel Dorothy M. Richardson (1873- 1957): Pilgrimage (1915- 38) – 12 books with focus on the changing floating