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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesflux de conscience
Pronunciation / Transliteration: fly de kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s
"Le roman utilise le flux de conscience pour explorer les pensées du personnage."
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2 senses- 1
A literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.
"The novel is celebrated for its radical use of stream-of-consciousness to explore the protagonist's innermost anxieties." - 2
A person's continuous flow of thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous unbroken stream.
"Her speech was a chaotic stream-of-consciousness detailing every single thing that had crossed her mind that morning."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
The term was originally coined in psychology by William James in his 1890 work 'The Principles of Psychology' to describe the unbroken flow of conscious thoughts and perceptions. It was later adopted in literary criticism during the early 20th century to describe a narrative mode that renders the individual's continuous, associative thought processes, famously utilized by authors like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
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flux de conscience
Transliteration: fly de kɔ̃.sjɑ̃s
"Le roman utilise le flux de conscience pour explorer les pensées du personnage."
Bewusstseinsstrom
Transliteration: bəˈvʊst.zaɪnsˌʃtʁoːm
"Der Autor verwendet die Technik des Bewusstseinsstroms."
flusso di coscienza
Transliteration: ˈflusso di koʃˈʃentsa
"Il libro è scritto come un flusso di coscienza."
fluir de conciencia
Transliteration: fluˈiɾ de konˈsjen.θja
"La técnica del fluir de conciencia caracteriza su obra cumbre."
fluxo de consciência
Transliteration: ˈfluk.su dʒi kõ.siˈẽ.si.ɐ
"A narrativa emprega o fluxo de consciência de forma brilhante."
चेतना का प्रवाह
Transliteration: chetana ka pravah
"इस उपन्यास में चेतना का प्रवाह शैली का अनूठा प्रयोग है।"
意识流
Transliteration: yìshíliú
"这部小说采用了典型的意识流写作手法。"
의식의 흐름
Transliteration: uisik-ui heureum
"이 소설은 의식의 흐름 기법을 사용하여 쓰여졌다."
意識の流れ
Transliteration: ishiki no nagare
"その小説は意識の流れという技法で書かれている。"
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