
This episode offers an in-depth analysis of the stream of consciousness narrative technique, with a particular focus on its application by Modernist authors such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Several texts define this technique, often tracing its popularisation to psychologist William James, and describe its key features, such as fragmented thoughts, a non-linear flow, and the use of interior monologue to represent a character's unfiltered psychic content. A significant portion of the episode scrutinises Joyce's Ulysses, especially the Molly Bloom monologue, through a linguistic lens, examining the structural role of cohesion categories, such as reference, conjunction, and collocation, in creating the text's unique, unconventional coherence despite its lack of traditional punctuation. The sources conclude that understanding these complex literary texts requires the reader's cultural and cognitive competence in addition to mere linguistic knowledge.