Introduction to the genres of poetry, drama and narrative prose (fiction and non-fiction) of Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries. Close reading of representative texts with attention to the emerging literary languages of this period of national consolidation, global expansion, religious ferment, and tensions of a multicultural society. Explores themes of love, honor, identity, war, death, spirituality in works by Garcilaso, San Juan de la Cruz, Cervantes, Quevedo, Calderón, and others. Conducted in Spanish.