Key topics: Anonymous, Lazarillo de Tormes — Prólogo and Tratados 1, 2, 3, 7: picaresque genre, unreliable narrator, social critique, Anonymous, 'Romance de la pérdida de Alhama' — continued Romancero context (cross-unit link with Unit 1), Miguel León-Portilla (ed.), Visión de los vencidos — two sections: indigenous perspectives on the Conquest, Hernán Cortés, 'Segunda carta de relación' — colonial discourse, self-fashioning, epistolary form, Garcilaso de la Vega, 'Soneto XXIII' — Petrarchan sonnet conventions, carpe diem, Renaissance lyric, Spanish Renaissance humanism and the impact of Erasmianism on prose, Encounter between Spain and the Americas: colonial narrative modes, competing voices, Picaresque conventions: low-born protagonist, episodic structure, satirical function.
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