Stream of consciousness fiction (Genre/Form Term)

Wheeler, K. Literary terms and definitions, via WWW, Jan. 3, 2013 (stream of consciousness: writing in which a character's perceptions, thoughts, and memories are presented in an apparently random form, without regard for logical sequence, chronology, or syntax. Often such writing makes no distinction between various levels of reality--such as dreams, memories, imaginative thoughts or real sensory perception. William James coined the phrase "stream of consciousness" in his Principles of Psychology (1890). The technique has been used by several authors and poets: Katherine Anne Porter, Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and William Faulkner)

Britannica online academic edition, Nov. 5, 2012 (stream of consciousness, narrative technique intended to render the flow of myriad impressions--visual, auditory, physical, associative, and subliminal--that impinge on the consciousness of an individual and form part of his awareness along with the trend of his rational thoughts; the stream-of-consciousness novel commonly uses the narrative techniques of interior monologue.)

Fiction that features a character's perceptions, thoughts, and memories in an apparently random order.