Pre-Joycean Fellowship

Several Minneapolis writers have semi-seriously styled themselves the Pre-Joycean Fellowship as a way of indicating that they prize clarity, the "lovely limpid quality" (Jane Yolen) of writing, over Joycean stream-of-consciousness writing. Steven Brust has said that "it is in large part a joke, and in

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another large part a way to start literary arguments."

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The term was probably coined by Will Shetterly in imitation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, positing James Joyce as the dividing line (in English) between 19th-century realist portrayals and a modern concern for the subjective and the literary tricks used to emulate subjective states of mind.

Related Topics:
Will Shetterly - Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - James Joyce - Realist - Modern - Subjective

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Steven Brust sometimes signs PJF after his name in his title pages.

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Some members have included:

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• Steven Brust
• Emma Bull
• Pamela Dean
• Kara Dalkey
• Neil Gaiman
• Adam Stemple
• William Shetterly
• Jane Yolen