The new role of the novelist in the 1920s :
to mediate between the solid values of the past and the confused present
William James coined the “stream of consciousness”
Rejection of chronological order and use of subjective/inner time.
two factors that contributed to the modern novel
They rejected the chronological order of the time
World war I
It is the psychological process
the birth of psychology
a new concept of time
The subconcious by Freud
A new concept of time elaborated by a philosopher William James and Henry Bergson
the interior monologue
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verbal expression of the stream consciousness
is written in first or third person
The action takes place in the character's mind
There is no chronological order
Speech may be immediate
which is the flow of our thoughts and feelings
The Phenomenon
The plot