A Stylistic Analysis of Stream of Consciousness Technique in the Modern Period. Case Study of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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2019
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
Abstract
This study is a stylistic investigation about the use of stream of consciousness in Virginia
Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. These two
figures of the Modern Period are known for the use of stream of consciousness in their novels. This
thesis demonstrates the common features such as free association and free indirect discourse used
by these writers. However, they are taking different notions that reveal the diversity of their style in
writing. Chapter one, entitled “The Use of Stream of Consciousness and Moment of Being in
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse,” discusses feminist characters, the All-knowing point of view,
and the moment of beings as a specific notion used by Woolf. Chapter two, entitled “The
Application of Stream of Consciousness and Epiphany in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as
a Young Man” which identifies the aspect of focalization, the limited point of view, coming of age,
interior monologue, and epiphany. The Stylistic approach is the appropriate method for this study,
which bases on literary analysis and interpretation. Robert Humphrey’s Stream of Consciousness
in the Modern Novel is one of the theories and perspectives that is taken as a concrete source to
analyze the content of the novels as mentioned above. This research might pave the way for an
additional study of the stream of consciousness in a rather consummately psychological
perspective.