Articulo_9_EN_Doxa_31_Literary_resources

interview-profile as “another way of writing interviews where interpretation and description come together” (2014: 111), and the report-profile as a story that focuses on a person or personality (2014: 74-75).

Added to this is the appearance of a plethora of journals devoted to narrative journalism in Spanish (both on paper and in digital format), which has contributed decisively to the boom of the profile and the emergence of a new generation of journalists, among whom the Argentine Leila Guerriero stands out. Guerriero is one of the great representatives of narrative journalism in the Spanish language and has mastered all genres, although the profile is where she has reached the pinnacle of eminence and originality. However, her work has not yet been analysed, and this article will attempt to fill the void.

The aim of this study is to show that Leila Guerriero’s profiles connect with the New Journalism of the USA, while at the same time they provide a different and personal view of the genre. Guerriero uses a considerable amount of the resources available to the New Journalism that Tom Wolfe had already listed in The New Journalism (1973), such as the construction of scenes that are not in chronological order and a comprehensive portrait of the environment, the main character, and the secondary characters as well. But this work wants to show that her contribution is genuine. In short, the intention is to check whether the journalism practiced by Leila Guerriero is an original way of carrying out narrative journalism and, specifically, whether she has provided an innovative style of writing profiles that brings them closer to the category of literary work.

2. Methodology

This research will address the study of Leila Guerriero’s profiles through classic content analysis based on reading as an instrument for collecting information. Unlike common reading, the type we refer to must be carried out using the scientific method. In other words, according to Kerlinger (2002), it must be systematic, objective, arguable, and valid. Moreover, it must allow one to discover scientifically both the “meanings” (thematic analysis) and the “signifiers” (formal features, procedures, and conventions) of a text (Wimmer and Dominick, 1996). The analysis will be systematic, as all content will be treated in a similar way and it will be objective, as any personal bias that might affect the results will be avoided.

According to Bardin (1986: 32), content analysis is seen as a set of communication analysis techniques that aims to obtain indicators (quantitative or otherwise) through systematic and objective procedures of description of the message content, while at the same time inferring knowledge about the conditions of production/reception (inferred variables) of these messages. Therefore, we can say that in a text there is a relationship between the frequency of appearance of certain linguistic units and the interest of the person producing the text.

Albert Chillón (2014) states that in journalism there is a desire for literary work, to use the resources of literature, language and style to be able to “accurately” narrate reality (2014: 15-16). This is the point of view taken by this study, and such a perspective would be used in the analysis of the narrative elements of a journalistic work of non-fiction, as well as a work of fiction. For this reason, in order to study the style in Leila Guerriero’s profiles, we will start from the theories of one of the great literary critics and the father of narratology, Gérard Genette (1989), who developed a temporal diagram for the