【正确答案】正确答案：stream of consciousness: Stream of consciousness is the continuous flow of sense, perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories in the human mind, or a literary method of representing such a blending of mental processes in fictional characters, usually in an unpunctuated or disjointed form of interior monologue. This term was created by Henry James in the 19 ^th century. As an important device of modernist fiction and its later imitators, the technique was pioneered by Dorothy Richardson in Pilgrimage and by James Joyce in Ulysses, and further developed by Virginia Woolf in Mrs. Dalloway and William Faulkner in The Sound and the Fury. It came to its peak in 1920s.

【答案解析】解析：(本题考查文学术语解释，可从术语的类型、时期、主要特点和代表作家等方面进行阐释。)