The journal revival in Eastern Europe The events of the last months have altered – sometimes radically – the panorama of journals in the countries of Eastern Europe : many new titles have appeared in all domains, publications which were still « dissident » a few months ago are now officially recognized, competition is present,
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A panorama of specialized journals on Eastern Europe The author recounts the itinerary – and appraises the contribution – of specialized journals (French and foreign) which, far from the media and often disregarded or plagiarized by them, have carried out – especially in France – an important task of information and reflection on Eastern countries.
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Love of journals Many writers have been « discovered » thanks to journals, the privileged access to the publishing world. Some writers have founded and edited journals to which they have devoted their best. But for several years now, literary practices and mores have changed and it seems that literary journals do not have the importance they
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Le succès de La NRF, 1925-1940 : la recette de Jean Paulhan. De toutes les revues littéraires françaises publiées au XXe siècle, aucune n’a atteint la réputation de La NRF. Cependant, attribuer cette réussite à la seule qualité de ses auteurs – parmi lesquels Gide, Martin du Gard ou Malraux – reviendrait à ignorer l’effort
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Manomètre and the International Avant-garde 1922-1928 Il is thanks to Dr Emile Malespine that the city of Lyons has its place in the history of literary and artistic avant-garde movements of the 1920s. The foundor of Manomètre, Malespine knew how to utilize the international network of small dadaist, futurist, and constructivist journals to animate a
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Philosophy-journals in France In France, philosophy enjoys the kind of social prestige that is rarely attributed to this field elsewhere, since elsewhere phisolophy is usually confined to the university. Indeed, French philosophical journals were most often founded outside of the university, free from its doctrinal constraints. This, however, did not prevent some of them –
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One hundred years ago, a worldly La Plume (1889-1989) Compared to Mercure de France and the Revue Blanche, La Plume is often considered to be a diffuse journal, torn between contradictory currents. In reality. La Plume passed through various phases, and had its symbolist, naturalist, then neo-symbolist periods. However, it is mostly the cultural and
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Scientific journals in France, their situation and evolution About 1 500 scientific journals are published in France, mostly by scholarly organizations, associations, or laboratories. The author traces their history since the 18th century, with special emphasis on the 19th century, when scientific journals greatly increased in number and underwent growing specialization. She also studies the
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The 170 surviving journals that Current Contents would have covered 100 years ago Every week Current Contents publishes the table of contents of scientific journals, and 170 of these have existed for over one hundred years. The director and founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (lSl) uses this figure to analyze the evolution of
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Greek literary reviews Greek literary journals in the 19th century were in reality no more than collections of diverse articles, with a dominant interest in literature. In the last century, during the debate which pitted the purists who favored a scholarly literary language against the demoticists who were partisan to a more popular mode of
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