Indology And Indologists,

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William James is the "inventor" of the stream of consciosness "technique." His influences are quite obvious given the following:



[url="http://www.brocku.ca/MeadProject/James/James_1911/James_1911_02.html"]William James, "The Tigers in India", Chapter 2 in The Meaning of Truth. [/url]



Yet..

In Indian writing in English, there are a very few writers dealing with the Stream of Consciousness technique. The Stream of Consciousness technique as employed by these writers is just a tentative experiment with this new form. It is yet to enter the main steam of fiction. Though novelists like Tagore, Bankim Chandra, R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Attia Hosain and Raja Rao have used the technique rather experimentally, they fail to portray the inner nuances of the protagonist’s consciousness. What they give is but a series or disjointed and rambling thought-processes or ruminations loosely tagged to the plot of the novel. A few novelists like Shouri Daniel, Anita Desai, and Arun Joshi could to some extent succeed in employing the Stream of Consciousness technique in their novels.



Among the Indian novelists, handling Stream of Consciousness technique, Arun Joshi occupies a significant position. Chiefly concerned



[url="http://sunoasis.ning.com/profiles/blogs/stream-of-consciousness"]Stream of Consciousness Technique: A Study of Arun Joshi’s Fiction[/url]

by Dr. Arvind Nawale