Question

please write a few pages using the stream of consciousness portrait of the artist background journal portrait of the artist introduction

Answer 1

James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are two representative figures of the modernist fiction, known for the use of the Stream of Consciousness technique. They are often categorized by the same features concerning this technique; however, their use of this technique may converge and diverge. This research is a stylistic investigation of the use of Stream of Consciousness in Joyce’s A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man and Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. It also explores Joyce’s Epiphanies and Woolf’s Moment of Being in the aforementioned novels. An eclectic method that draws on insights from psychoanalysis, stylistics and Narratology is adopted to this study. The findings concerning the convergence in the use of Stream of Consciousness in the two aforementioned novels could be summarized as follows: the implication of the aspect of focalization, the use of free association and the use of time-montage devices. As for the divergence in the use of the Stream of Consciousness in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, it is related to the use of Free Indirect Discourse, Space-Montage and the guidance of the author. However, in Joyce’s A Portrait of that Artist as a Young Man, it is distinguished by the use of Interior Monologue and the evolution of language. This research might pave the way for an extended study to the technique of Stream of Consciousness in a rather exhaustively psychological perspective.