Pre-Joycean Fellowship

Pre-Joycean Fellowship

Several writers known for fantasy and science fiction have semi-seriously called themselves the Pre-Joycean Fellowship to indicate that they value 19th-century values of storytelling, including clarity, called by Jane Yolen the "lovely limpid quality" of writing.Fact|date=November 2007 Steven Brust has said that "it is in large part a joke, and in another large part a way to start literary arguments."Fact|date=November 2007

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 fiction intended for a general audience and a modern desire to write for readers who are well educated in the literary history. Mark Alan Arnold commented, "The Pre-Joycean Fellowship exists to poke fun at the excesses of contemporary literature while simultaneously mining it for everything of value."Fact|date=November 2007

The name was meant as a joke; a "gathering of the PJF" was an excuse for writers with shared interests to meet at a bar. Steven Brust took the joke public when he began signing PJF after his name on his title pages.

Members have included:
*Steven Brust
*Emma Bull
*Pamela Dean
*Kara Dalkey
*Adam Stemple
*Will Shetterly
*Jane Yolen


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