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University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

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.

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stream-of-consciousness novels, direct interior monologue, soliloquy, omniscient description

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References

Baldick, C. (2000). Oxford concise dictionary of literary terms. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.

Bickerton, D. (1967). Modes of interior monologue: A formal definition. Modern Language Quarterly, 28(2), 229-239.

Faulkner, W. (1964). As I lay dying. New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books.

Faulkner, W. (1995). The sound and the fury. New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books.

Humphrey, R. (1954). Stream of consciousness in the modern novel. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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