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In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a literary technique that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her sensory reactions to external occurrences. Stream-of-consciousness writing is strongly associated with the modernist movement. The introduction of the term to describe literature, transferred from psychology, is attributed to May Sinclair. Several notable works employing stream of consciousness are:

	Édouard Dujardin's "Les Lauriers sont coupés" (1888)
	Arthur Schnitzler's "Leutnant Gustl" (1901)
	Nadine Gordimer's "July's People"
	Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji"
	Lewis Grassic Gibbon's "Sunset Song"
	Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage (1915-28)
	James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake", "Ulysses" (in particular Molly Bloom's Soliloquy), as well as "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
	Samuel Beckett's Trilogy
	Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway", "To the Lighthouse" and "The Waves"
	William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying"
	Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea's Illuminatus!
	William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness
	Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren
	Hubert Selby Jr.'s "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and "Requiem for a Dream"
	Jerzy Andrzejewski's Gates to Paradise
	Will Christopher Baer's "Phineas Poe Trilogy" (Seen in all of Kiss Me, Judas and Hell's Half Acre and parts of Penny Dreadful)
	Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy
	T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
	Oguz Atay's Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected)
	Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road"
	J.D. Salinger Seymour: An Introduction
	Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londonders
	Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time
	William Burroughs's Naked Lunch
	Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
	Bahram Bayzai's "Death of Yazdgerd"

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