THE PROSE OF THE "STREAM OF CONSCIOSNESS

This article is dedicated to the prose of the "stream of consciousness". The "stream of consciousness" was "one of the ways to convey the thoughts and feelings of the characters in fiction. The term belongs to the American philosopher William James, who used it in his work "Principles of Psychology" (1890) to describe the flow of thoughts in the waking brain. In the 20th century, in the era of modernism, the term "stream of consciousness" began to be used in literary criticism and theory to denote a new writing technique. The need for this new technique was caused by the increasing interest of writers in what is happening in the mind of the character, even to the detriment of important and significant events in the outside world. Attention is focused on relatively trivial things that are important not in themselves, but in the light of the reaction to them from the character.