Traditional novel vs Modern novel

TRADITIONAL NOVEL

• ·         Interest in society and outward actions
• ·         Chronological time
• ·         Omniscient narrator
• ·         Didactic aim

MODERN NOVEL   

• Interest in man and the psyche   
• Subjective time   - flashbacks, anticipations, the story within the story, special forms of punctuation (dashes, parentheses) Interior monologue/the narrator disappears
•   Looking for a moral centre in human experience
  
•  No chronological order- the conventional structure of beginning, development and conclusion disappears
  
•  Trivial events occurring over a short period of time
• Sensations, dreams, thoughts, recollections of the characters (main focus)

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS FICTION

The expression  stream of consciousness is used to refer to the experiments by Joyce, where the fragmentary nature of thioughts is reproduced making it very difficult to follow. The character’s thoughts flow freely, not interrupted by external events.

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 A PSYCHIC PHENOMENON- the mental activity itself

INTERIOR MONOLOGUE

The instrument used to translate this phenomenon into words

The stream of consciousness technique applied to literature the theories developed by two philosophers: Henri Bergson and William James

Modernism video