Multimodality of Interior Monologues in Faulkner’s Stream-of-Consciousness Novels
LIU Shuyun
US-China Foreign Language August 28, 2018 DOI: 10.17265/1539-8080/2018.08.003 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that Faulkner employs distinct modes of interior monologue—direct interior monologue, soliloquy, and omniscient description—in The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, and that differentiating these modes reveals how each represents different levels and subtle movements of consciousness, demonstrating Faulkner's craft in capturing its complexity and fluidity. |
Abstract
Interior monologues are common devices across the range of dramatic media (plays, films, etc.), and also effective approaches in novels, especially used interchangeably with stream-of-consciousness in modernist psychological novels.William Faulkner employs several modes of them, encompassing direct interior monologue, soliloquy, and omniscient description in his stream-of-consciousness masterpieces The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying to mirror consciousness at different levels.This paper attempts to differentiate these modes and analyze their respective effects in representing the subtle movements of the psyche processes, thus giving a glimpse of Faulkner's highly skilled craft of capturing and preserving the complicacy and fluidity of consciousness.