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This study presents an analysis of the narratives of the large reportages published on the Ebola epidemic in three Latin American countries, collected in the first half of 2015, as part of the first anniversary of the disease outbreak in Africa. The texts are from the newspapers El País from España, El Universal from México and La Nación from Costa Rica. This research worked with all the reportages on Ebola of more than a thousand words and analyzed the narrative strategies of the texts using a study of their structures and literary resources. About the results, there are differences in the focus of the stories: the victims, the understanding of the disease itself, and the role of science. There is an effort by the newspaper from Spain to humanize the victims, although the women had no voice or representation in any of the three newspapers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyse which role fiction plays in columns, specifically the practice known as self-fiction in the literary research field. It consists of the creation of a fictitious personality with the same name and surnames as the author's. On the other hand, I will study why columns and short fiction can be swapped. This research will be based on the columns that the writer Empar Moliner publishes in the newspaper Avui. That will allow me to check the experimental nature of this genre and the persuasive value of fiction when used with an argumentative purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the surface, José Luis Guerín's En construcción (2001) presents a biting critique of capitalism and the way in which construction has become a source of economic benefit in present-day Spain. Underlying this criticism, however, is an important commentary on visuality, historical cinematic memory and the relationship between architecture and cinema. This study, while recognizing Guerín's critique of exploitative building practices, postulates that his auto-reflexive approach to filmmaking corresponds to an architectural ethics that desires the return of a symbiotic matrimony between art, industry and social life. From there, the article posits that Guerín's commentary on architecture and urban life is a submerged metaphor for both capitalistic criticism and an ethics of cinema, an ethics implying synchronic conjuration of past tradition and the creation of a desultory, protracted temporality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The inability to come to terms with traumatic experiences is felt most acutely by the individual, but is also a social phenomenon, perpetuated by the disjunction of an 'official history' and that experienced locally by the individual. In light of the recuperation of Spanish Civil War histories and the need to address the unspoken past, this article focuses on the recent work of Juan Goytisolo, a writer renowned for blurring the autobiographical, the political and the literary. After brief reference to Goytisolo's earlier work, the essay examines three of his more recent novels, La cuarentena (1991), El sitio de los sitios (1995) and Las semanas del jardín (1997), identifying the personal and communal ties to the traumatic past that are realized in Goytisolo's work and revealing the processes by which Goytisolo consciously and unconsciously evokes his past while engaging his readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyse the features of some of the translations of the Epistola de cura rei familiaris by Pseudo Bernardus made in fifteenth-century Spain, in which the text had a remarkable diffusion. This paper attempts to carry out a comparison among different translations, and between translations and Latin texts belonging to different textual families. This comparison shows that some features common only to certain Latin texts survive in some of the Romance translations. In the Romance texts we also find different kinds of mistakes made during the translation process. Finally, we can verify the existence of an independent Romance tradition, separate from Latin, and with features of its own. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents an overview of literary scholars on essays of postmodernism literature text of Madrid. Focus of Edward Baker on writers fascination with Madrid's Gran Via; Emphasis of the Farris Anderson essay on contributions of the non-literary to the literary; Texts of William Sherzer in representing the working-class area of Carabanchel.