What narrative technique do James Joyce and William Faulkner use in their novels?
1) I think they were just writing as they wanted to write. Either because they were exploring new techniques of writing or using some which already existed. Some time later, literary critics tried to understand this and gave it a name, so they could put those people more easily in a particular category: 2) “In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a literary technique that seeks to portray an individual’s point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character’s thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her sensory reactions to external occurrences. Stream-of-consciousness writing is strongly associated with the modernist movement. Its introduction in the literary context, transferred from psychology, is attributed to May Sinclair.” “Several notable works employing stream of consciousness are: – Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song. – Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage (1915-28) – James Joyce’s Ulysses (in particular Molly Bloom’s S
