Technique
Stream of Consciousness
The term was coined by William James (Principles of Psychology, 1890). Applied to literature by critics describing the method of Woolf, Joyce, and Faulkner; imported into poetry as interior monologue.
Definition
The representation of continuous, unfiltered thought — associative, non-linear, and mimicking the flux of mental experience.
Example
Late Anne Carson; certain lyric essays; Dorothy Richardson's verse-influenced prose experiments.