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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 that "it is in large part a joke, and in another large part a way to start literary arguments."
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.
Steven Brust sometimes signs PJF after his name in his title pages.
Some members have included:
- Steven Brust
- Emma Bull
- Pamela Dean
- Kara Dalkey
- Neil Gaiman
- Adam Stemple
- William Shetterly
- Jane Yolen
Last updated: 06-05-2005 22:14:00
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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