Stream of Consciousness and Contemporary Chinese Literature

Contemporary Chinese literary genres include the Lotus and Dian Dian School, the Yam and Egg School, the Scars Literature, the Reflection Literature, the Revolutionary Literature, the Roots Literature, and the Pioneer Literature.

The modernist genre of "stream-of-consciousness" novels was popular in France, Britain and the United States in the 1920s and 1940s. The most famous ones are French writer Proust, Irish writer Joyce, American writer Faulkner, and British women writers such as Taoiseach Richardson and Virginia Wolff. They successively wrote "stream-of-consciousness" novels different from traditional novels, forming an influential literary genre. After the 1940s, as an independent "stream of consciousness" school, no longer exists; but their creation of the consciousness of the method, but by many different tendencies of literary scholars, widely adopted, developed, and created their own unique style.

Through the research, it is proved that the stream of consciousness is different from most of the modernist genres, and the writers of "stream of consciousness" novels don't have the same organization, and they don't have the same flag; but they have similar philosophical and artistic views, similar ideological tendency and artistic style, and they communicate with each other, and influence each other, so it should also be called a relatively unique school.

But they have similar philosophical and artistic views, similar ideological tendencies and artistic styles, and they share each other's voices and influences.

But the term "stream of consciousness" was first proposed by American pragmatist philosopher and psychologist William James. He believed that human consciousness is not a succession of fragments, but is in a state of perpetual flow, so it is called "stream of consciousness". He explains: "Consciousness - for itself - does not appear as a fragment. Words like 'chain' or 'series' do not adequately describe the way consciousness first presents itself. It is not something connected, it flows. A metaphor like "river" or "stream" would naturally describe it. When we speak of it in the future, let us call it the stream of thought, the stream of consciousness, the stream of subjective life.

This insightful exposition of his, which tells us how the word "stream of consciousness" came to be, does not give us a clear idea of the characteristics of "stream of consciousness" novels, nor does it empower us to understand the meaning of "stream of consciousness" novels, or the meaning of "stream of consciousness" novels. The term "stream of consciousness" does not give us a clear idea of the characteristics of "stream of consciousness" novels, nor does it entitle us to a clear understanding of the difference between "stream of consciousness" novels and traditional novels. Because from the actual works, some traditional writers, such as Stendhal, Flaubert, Tolstoy, etc., are also famous for their ability to portray the psychology, and they write the character's consciousness, but also has a certain length of "flow", and it is not possible to follow the character's consciousness forever "flow". "It is not possible to follow the character's consciousness forever. Any work, in the performance of the psychological state of the characters, is actually the unity of "flow" and "piece". That is, from a local point of view, is the "flow"; and from the global point of view, but is one of the "piece" or a few "pieces" only.