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Stream of Consciousness in “To the Light House”

Stream of Consciousness in “To the Light House” Introduction Virginia Woolf is considered the perfect master of stream of consciousness novel. The phrase “Stream of consciousness was first used William James in his “Principles of psychology” in 1890. Three novelists – Marcel Proust in France, James Joyce in Ireland and M. Richardson in England – were three main architects of this type of the novel. This new type of novel flourished during the period between 1915 to 1939, and it was Virginia Woolf who gave this type of novel a proper shape and adequate refinement. Study of Human Psyche, The chief object of the stream of consciousness novel is the study of human psyche or human consciousness. The novelists of this technique believe that human actions are determined more by the sub-conscious and the unconscious than by the conscious. Instead of a tendency at concentration around a limited issue, those novelists fly off in an eccentric manner in different directions. They hav...

Important Questions for American Literature Paper V

Important Questions   American Literature 1.WALT WHITMAN AND ROBERT FROST 1. Answer the following questions.  (i) What is uniquely American about Whitman's poetry? (ii) What, in Whitman's view, is the function of poetry? (iii) Describe Whitman's conception of the soul and the body. (iv) What kinds of structures does Whitman use in his poetry? (v) What kind of vocabulary does Whitman use in his poetry? (vi) What kinds of landscapes do we see in Whitman's poetry? (vii) How does Whitman handle modernity and technological change? (viii) What is the them of 'There was a Child Went Forth'? (ix) What is the theme of 'I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing'? (x) What is the theme of 'One's-Self I Sing'? (xi) What is the theme of 'Poets to Come'? (xii) What is the them of 'O Captain! My Captain!'? (xiii) What is the theme of 'To a Stranger'? (xiv) What is the theme of 'Shut Not Your Doors'? (x...