Stream of consciousness

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 6

Stream of consciousness

Modernism

Who claimed what? Link the person to the statement. 

Sigmund Freud

Charles Darwin

Karl Marx

People are no rational beings

People are not destined to own/ work. 

Life was created by evolution not God

Modernism

Modernism, in the fine arts, is a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression. Modernism fostered a period of experimentation in the arts from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, particularly in the years following World War I.

What characteristics of the modernist
movement do you see in Picasso's painting "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon"?

Juxtaposition - an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

Intertextuality = shaping of a text’s meaning with another text (Leda and the Swan + The Second Coming)

Allusions = Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text.

Unconventional metaphor: A creative metaphor is an original comparison that calls attention to itself as a figure of speech. American philosopher Richard Rorty characterized the creative metaphor as a challenge to established schemes and conventional perceptions.

"The entire house screamed with silence."

Conventional metaphor: "The snow is a white blanket."

Free verse allows the poet to express their ideas and emotions, and to shape a poem however they would like. 

Free verse is not prose set out in lines. Like other sorts of poetry, it is language organised for its musical effects of rhythm and sound. However, these effects are used irregularly, not according to any completely fixed pattern.

What is free verse?

A deictic expression or deixis is a word or phrase (such as this, that, these, those, now, then, here) that points to the time, place, or situation in which a speaker is speaking. Deixis is expressed in English by way of personal pronouns, demonstratives, adverbs, and tense. The term's etymology comes from the Greek, meaning "pointing" or "show," and it's pronounced "DIKE-tik."

It sounds more complicated than it really is, for sure. For example, if you would ask a visiting exchange student, "Have you been in this country long?" the words this country and you are the deictic expressions

Stream of Consciousness

• Uninhabited capturing of one’s thoughts. The reader is eavesdropping on the flow of conscious experience in the character's mind. 
• Represents the true complexity of the human consciousness
• Characterized by associative (and at times dissociative) leaps in syntax and punctuation
• The irrational, nonlinear and the insignificant are given full weight

By Definition it allows: 

● Longer sentences

● Incomplete sentences

● Different forms of reality:

○ Dreams

○ Hallucinations

○ Drug-induced visions

○ Flashbacks

Difference SoC and Interior Monologue

Interior monologue:

uses traditional grammar and syntax

usually a clear logical progression from one sentence to the next and one idea to the next

Interior monologue relates a character's thoughts as coherent, fully formed sentences, as if the character is talking to him or herself.

  

Stream of consciousness:
 the actual experience of thinking, in all its chaos and distraction.
Stream of consciousness is not just an attempt to relay a character's thoughts, but to make the reader experience those thoughts in the same way that the character is thinking them.   

In interior monologue, unlike in stream of consciousness, the character's thoughts are often presented using traditional grammar and syntax, and usually have a clear logical progression from one sentence to the next and one idea to the next. Interior monologue relates a character's thoughts as coherent, fully formed sentences, as if the character is talking to him or herself.

Stream of consciousness, in contrast, seeks to portray the actual experience of thinking, in all its chaos and distraction. Stream of consciousness is not just an attempt to relay a character's thoughts, but to make the reader experience those thoughts in the same way that the character is thinking them.   

Pick one quote that appeals to you. What can we infer from the following quotes about virginia Woolf, her mindset, her perspective?

Mrs. Dolloway by Virginia Woolf

The novel is the inner monologue of a middle-age woman, Clarissa Dalloway,

as she prepares for a party one evening in June.

However, this plot isn't the interesting bit...

“Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day”

-Virginia Woolf

The goal is to capture the complexity of the mind. Period.

Literature Portfolio

• You will read 3 books for your portfolio
• Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours (both PDF on Magister) and a book of your own choice
• Additionally, there will be an in-class assignment 
• Assignments can be found on Magister together with Instructions.