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- While I appreciate that this publication has many of the hallmarks of a magazines, it is never referred as such in academic literature. Instead, it is usually referenced as a "journal". I realize that the semantics are a bit murky here... would it better be called an academic journal? Although it doesn't really look like modern academic journals (with peer review, etc.) most of its content was geared towards debating intellectual issues. It was a bit of a hybrid between a literary and music journal (although typical of earlier publications, its coverage was quite eclectic and it often discussed broad topics like evolution, vegetarianism and politics). Anyway, not sure... it's just that the term magazine is never used in the sources I've seen. AmomentOfMusic (talk) 15:26, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The confusion is perhaps due to the fact that in French, the word "journal" has a much broader meaning than in English. This doesn't have the "look and feel" of an academic publications, hence the use of the word "magazine". There's nothing pejorative about that, it's just a type of periodical. The eclectic coverage supports this. --Randykitty (talk) 17:36, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough - probably in actuality it was a magazine/literary journal that aspired to be "academic" in nature. I think it just feels weird for me because I've never seen it called as such. But that's probably just academics being a bit elitist to be honest, so *shrugs*. Funnily enough, the term I've seen in French to describe it is not actually "journal" (which I agree does have a wider usage), but 'petite revue', referring to a small scale publication which started appearing in France following loosening of publication laws. All that to say, the categorization is probably right, even if it feels a bit weird. AmomentOfMusic (talk) 19:46, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
