Key topics: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha — Part 1 chapters 1–5, 8–9; Part 2 chapter 74: metafiction, narrative levels, parody of chivalric romance, Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla — comedia conventions, the Don Juan archetype, honor code, Francisco de Quevedo, 'Salmo XVII' — conceptismo: conceit, paradox, meditations on death, Luis de Góngora, Soneto CLXVI — culteranismo: Latinate syntax, mythological allusion, ornate imagery, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 'Hombres necios que acusáis' — feminist argument, redondilla form, colonial New World context, Spanish Baroque aesthetics: desengaño (disillusionment), the tension between appearance and reality, Culteranismo vs. conceptismo as competing Baroque poetic modes, Cervantine metafiction: the embedded manuscript, named narrators, authorial intrusion.
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