Quiz · The Stream of Consciousness Novel

Question 1What is this talk mainly about regarding early twentieth century fiction?

The return of tidy plots and neat endings in modern novels. Why newspaper critics supported experimental writing methods. How daring novelists broke old rules to follow the wandering human mind. The daily routines of writers in one small city.

Question 2What did James Joyce do according to the speaker?

He pushed the experiment further, moving the novel toward pure verbal music. He wrote angry newspaper articles against the new novelists. He refused to change the tidy plots of the previous age. He taught Virginia Woolf how to write long sentences.

Question 3What can be inferred about the critics who attacked these novelists?

They secretly admired the new storytelling techniques. They later became famous experimental novelists themselves. They believed thoughts move in straight lines only. They thought the new methods abandoned the art of storytelling.