Teaching Module Trial: Spain in New Frontier

Spain and the Magazine: The Spanish Civil War in New Frontier

Below is New Frontier, a magazine that ran from 1936 to 1937. The magazine is a crucial source for understanding of scope of Canadian cultural production about the conflict, in part, because of the large amount of texts that sit adjacent across genres. For example, a poem will appear alongside an illustration and below a news report. What

Possible Discussion Topics/Assignments:

-Print culture and design
-Periodical culture
-Poetry and activism

Have students write a short essay exploring the ways in which different texts take on different meanings because of their adjacency.

New Frontier
New Frontier

Key Terms: Periodical Culture, New Frontier, Poetry, Illustration, Reportage, Journalism.