Oregon State University – School of Writing, Literature and Film
What is the definition of stream of consciousness? What are some examples of stream of conscious writing in literature? Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Delf answers these questions using examples from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, and everyday life. The short video is designed to help high school and college English students to not only identify stream-of-consciousness narration but also to analyze its structure and purpose. The video is sponsored by the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University. For more discussions of literary topics and essay writing tips, please subscribe to the free SWLF YouTube Channel or visit http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf
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“What is a graphic narrative? (Part II)”: https://youtu.be/KEqQIB5ytcI
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Wow you made this literary work sound so simple and easy to understand, thank you so much!
Thank you! This was very helpful.
No mention of Kerouac?
This was an interesting video. The brief comments on free association, repetition, and sensory observation were helpful. I am wanting to learn more about getting into a steam of consciousness mode of writing. I write from research and detailed notes, but the few times I have written in SofC the results have been well received by my readers.
Interestingly, Paul Simon said he wrote part of Bridge Over Troubled Water in SofC.
Full disclosure: I've never gone to university, and I'm not a well-read reader; however, hear me out. What I'm about to say is the most honest opinion you will ever read about stream of consciousness writings. Stream of consciousness is a pseudo-artistic writing-style that holds the intention of providing pompous, self-indulgent, "intellectual," douchebags with the mental ability to jerk themselves off in front of their like-minded brethren. It is over-hyped, meaningless, word-diarrhea that tries to come off as a new age, omniscient, monologue for some profound agenda that's open to interpretation. You will take NOTHING meaningful away from a stream of consciousness writing. One could pay a bum in California $10 to take a shit in a Walmart parking lot, and leave that experience with just as much value if they were to, instead, read something like Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce.
TL;DR don't waste your time with literature written in the stream of consciousness style. It's garbage.
impossible to understand for someone who has learnt British English + you speak too fast. Just as well there are subtitles, that's the only wasy I can follow the video.
mam you speak so fast that we non native english speaker can't get you eassly .so kindly decrease you speaking spead .
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