representations of the exterior world as a physical, historical, site of experience. Also, time is considered as well and became psychological not the historical time of realism.
The conventions, strategies and techniques adopted by the modernist novelists were closely connected with the great transformations that Europe underwent at a philosophical, political, technological and artistic level, and they owed specifically a lot to the new ideas on the human mind that were spreading across Europe and America. William James and Sigmund Freud were among the chief creators of this modern psychology, and their writings, along with Woolf’s, show us their attempts to give a novel account of the workings of the mind. The phrase “stream of consciousness” to indicate the flow of inner experience was first used by William James in his book ‘Principles of Psychology’. Joyce’ The Principles of
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One can answer this through Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece as Before Woolf, writers had used this technique, but their application of it was chaotic and difficult to follow, and it wasn’t very well received by readers. Woolf wrote Mrs. Dalloway by exploring the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of her characters, which was very experimental for the time. It was an entirely new way of looking at the world. Today, writers use stream of consciousness to address the internal explorations of characters as well as a foundation for structuring whole novels. Woolf’s work of exploring the thoughts, feelings, moods, and expectations of characters in a seamless way changed the structure of writing in a significant