Little magazine

Japanese: リトル･マガジン（英語表記）little magazine

A literary or intellectual magazine published on a non-commercial basis. Unlike those published by commercial publishers with large circulations, they are characterized by the anonymity of their authors, the experimental and anti-conventional nature of their works, and a disregard for profit. Furthermore, their readership is limited to a relatively small number of intellectuals, and most of them are published for a short period of time. Although they are called "little," they also include those that are large in size and use luxurious paper. The fact that such magazines appeared in large numbers in the early 1910s is not unrelated to the rise of modernist literature at that time. The forerunners of the "little magazine" were The Dial (1840-44) by the American thinker R.W. Emerson, and the British Yellow Book (1894-97), which rebelled against Victorian mores.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

非商業ベースによる文芸･思想雑誌。発行部数の大きな商業出版社によるものとは異なり，筆者の無名性，作品の実験性･反俗性，利潤の度外視などをその特徴とする。また読者は，比較的少数の知識層に限られ，刊行期間の短いものが多い。〈リトル〉といっても，判型が大きく，ぜいたくな紙を使用したものも含まれる。とくに1910年代初頭にこの種の雑誌が続出した事実は，その当時におけるモダニズム文芸の興隆と無縁ではない。〈リトル･マガジン〉の先駆としては，アメリカの思想家R.W.エマソンなどによる《ダイアル》(1840‐44)，またビクトリア朝の習俗に反旗を翻したイギリスの《イェロー･ブック》(1894‐97)などがあった。

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