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1、 是小柯论文网通过网络搜集,并由本站工作人员整理后发布的,是篇质量较高的学术论文,供本站访问者学习和学术交流参考之用,不可用于其他商业目的,的论文版权归原作者所有,因网络整理,有些文章作者不详,敬请谅解,如需转摘,请注明出处小柯论文网,如果此论文无法满足您的论文要求,您可以申请本站帮您代写论文,以下是正文。 Abstract:The paper aims to make the abstract and even profound writing techniques of stream-of -consciousness concrete and easy-understanding as
2、well as to demonstrate its functions in novel writing with illustration of the famous work To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf who successfully employs this writing technique. The writing techniques involved are indirect interior monologue montage, free association and multiple-point-of view. The ap
3、plication of these approaches attributes greatly to better exposing the inner world of the characters and uncovering the motif of the novel.Key words:stream of consciousness To the Lighthouseinterior monologue free associationmontagemultiple-point-of-view The stream-of-consciousness works are not ea
4、sy to be understood especially the most outstanding novelist James Joyces encyclopedia masterpiece Ulysses, because the writing techniques it employs make the novels seem in disorder and lack of a clear plot compared with other traditional novels like realism novels. But one of the most famous strea
5、m of consciousness novelist Virginia Woolf really makes full advantage of stream of consciousness in her works with a poetic language especially in To the Lighthouse, which, to some extend, is not a novel but a prose, not only to make such a novel easy-understanding and worth-reading but also to cle
6、arly reveal the inner world of the characters and display the motif of the novel. In this paper, I am making my efforts to present a better and clear and full spectrum of stream-of-consciousness works writing techniques with illustration to Woolfs To the Lighthouse. Background PresentationTo fully c
7、omprehend the stream-of-consciousness work, it is essential to get familiar with its historical and cultural background and the development of it. The concept of stream-of-consciousness was first advocated by American psychologist and philosopher William James in his book Principles of Psychology. (
8、1890). James asserted that the first fact for us is that thinking of some sort goes on. He uses the word thinking for every form of consciousness in discriminately. And said if people could say in English it thinks”, it rains or It flows, they should be stating the fact most simply and with minimum
9、of assumption. To make it vivid and visual, the word chain or train may be used and a river or a stream can be the most appropriate metaphor to describe it naturally.And later this concept was developed theoretically by Henri Bergson and Sigmund Frend who believed that ones present was the sum of hi
10、s past, present and future, and that the whole truth about human beings existed in the unique, isolated, and private world of each individual. With its introduction to literacy field, stream of consciousness has become one of the most important schools of literature in the modernism of the 20th cent
11、ury. During the first three decades of this period, to stimulate the technical innovation of novel creation, writers like Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf concentrated all their efforts on digging into the human consciousness. They had created unprecedented stream-of-consciousness
12、novels such as Pilgrimage (1915-1938) by Richardson, Ulysses (1922) by Joyce, and Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Woolf. As a notable female writer successfully using stream of consciousness, Woolf is greatly influenced by Henry James and worked on the experiment and innovation of novel writing. Her viewpoi
13、nt on novel writing can be clearly observed in her most famous essay “Modern Fiction”: The mind receives a myriad impression-trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; an as they fall, as they shape the
14、mselves into life of Monday or Tuesday, the accent falls differently from of old; the moment of importance came not here but there; so that, if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon con
15、vention, there could no plot, no comedy, no tragedy no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it. To make it colloquial, Woolf suggests novelists to divert from the stereotyped form of fiction writing and trie
16、s to seek a more delicate depiction of peoples consciousness in which she feels the truth of human experience really lies, appealing the writers to focus on the innermost world of the characters. Her novel To the Lighthouse published in 1927 is one of her most successful and accessible experiments i
17、n the stream-of-consciousness style with poetic language, which plays back and forth between telescopic and microscopic views of nature and human nature. The writing techniques of stream of consciousness in To the LighthouseIn the field of literary criticism, there exist different expressions of the
18、 definition of stream of consciousness. To make a conclusion, all the definitions highlight the following points: stream of consciousness is a literary technique or narrative approach which is used to describe the unbroken flow of perception, thoughts and feelings in the waking minds; it may not alw
19、ays appear to have a coherent structure; its plotline may weave in and out of time and place, carrying the readers through the lifespan of the characters; it highlights the emotional and psychological process consciously or subconsciously occurring in peoples mind; it reveals the characters traits t
20、hrough an exploration of what is going on in the mind; and most importantly, it employs the writing techniques of interior monologue, narrated monologue,free association, montage (overlapping of time and space as well as interweaving of plot), symbolic image, multiple-point-of view 是小柯论文网通过网络搜集,并由本站
21、工作人员整理后发布的,是篇质量较高的学术论文,供本站访问者学习和学术交流参考之用,不可用于其他商业目的,的论文版权归原作者所有,因网络整理,有些文章作者不详,敬请谅解,如需转摘,请注明出处小柯论文网,如果此论文无法满足您的论文要求,您可以申请本站帮您代写论文,以下是正文。, omniscient description and so on. In the stream-of-consciousness novel To the Lighthouse, Woolf makes great use of the indirect interior monologue, montage, and f
22、ree association and multiple-point-of-view to unveil the characters complicated inner world and revert to life and human nature genuinely. In the following of this part, I will demonstrate these techniques through illustration of this work. A.Indirect interior monologue Interior monologue can be div
23、ided into the direct one and indirect one that refers to the unspoken psychological language in the characters mind expressed through free direct or indirect speech. In direct interior monologue, the character is regarded as the first person to convey what happening in their mind. Without the appare
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