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Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Moby-Dick
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Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: What is Southern Gothic?
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Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Writer's Inspiration
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Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Stream of Consciousness 1616 Views


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It’s time to become mind readers and get into the heads of stream of consciousness writers, and order some chicken for Tuesday, because last week we had salmon and salmon is only for bears, bears are great, sometimes we wish we were bears, we’d hibernate and never have to order chicken on Tuesday, only if we were going to a bear dinner party, but then we’d need to get our bear formal wear ironed and that’s just a huge pain the neck, and bears don’t have masseuses and–– ...Phew. That was exhausting.


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Thank you We sneak in Southern gothic stream of consciousness

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Ah la shmoop One of the elements of southern gothic

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genre is this notion of stream of consciousness Can you

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explain what is stream of consciousness And and how is

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it applied inside of the southern gothic element What is

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stream of consciousness Yeah Stream of consciousness is a narrative

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technique that developed with modernist writing Basically the goal of

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stream of consciousness is to be able to get inside

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of a character's head and often inside multiple characters heads

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So you're not limited by this He said she said

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kind of narration gets it i guess the raven evermore

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yeah exactly Um so william faulkner was one of the

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main innovators of this technique And and as i lay

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dying he switches between fifteen different characters internal monologues without

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giving the reader any kind of clues is toe win

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he's switching or who He's switching teo so you kind

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of have to just think you're it out on your

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own but it allows the reader to inhabit multiple people

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within one novel all at once Got it I think

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of james joyce is having done this a lot And

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finnegans wake i guess is that right goes through various

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characters and so on What is stream of consciousness if 00:01:36.914 --> [endTime] i ever more

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