GK+Source+2+-+BOWLING


 * Add here quotations, main ideas, etc (we have to use the PPT about Critical Thinking)**

__ What is the stream of consciousness technique? __

 * - There is no general agreement as to where the method [the stream of consciousness technique] originated or even what it actually is. **


 * - This happens because critics have failed to recognize different variations within the technique and failed to distinguish it from another similar method (therefore, they often are not talking about the same thing) **


 * - Dujardin calls the technique "interior monologue", being identical with spoken monologue except for the vocalization that implies that he is speaking of only one level of consciousness or that he assumes all consciouness to come under the heading of interior monologue. **


 * - To be convincing, the aforementioned interior monologue must be as logical and formal as ordinary speech. The mind moves along in a "loose manner, tacking on one idea after another" **


 * - However, assuming that "interior monologue covers the whole of consciousnesness, as Dujardin does, is "going too far". **


 * - Elizabeth Drew defines the stream of consciouness technique as "the method of creating character and interpreting life invented out of the realm of one person's immediate experience, and one person's consciousness is the standard of reference for the whole existence". This statement is not completely correct, however. **


 * - The stream of consciousness technique can be thereforefore defined as "that narrative method by which the author attempts to give a direct quotation of the mind - not merely the language area but of the whole consciousness". **


 * - The stream of consciousness technique may be applied exclusively throughout a whole book or section of a book, or intermittenly in short fragments. **


 * - The only criterion is that it must introducer us directly into the interior life of the character, "without any intervention by way of comment or explanation on the part of the author". "If the author limits his direct quotation to that area of conscousness in which the mind formulates its thoughts and feelings into language, the method may still be called by the comprehensive term "the stream of consciousness technique", but in this case it would be more exact to apply the more restricted term "interior monologue"." **


 * - If the author intervenes in any way between the reader and the character's consciousness to an"analyze, comment, or interpret, then he is employing not the stream of consciousness technique but a fundamentally different method which may be correctly be designated internal analysis". **


 * - We can say that "internal analysis" is an "indirect statement in the words of the author", while the "stream of consciousness technique" is a "direct quotation of the character's consciousness". **