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Topics may include: lyric and epic poetry; Jewish and Muslim literatures; the development of Castilian, Catalan, and Portuguese prose; the Valencian golden age; texts of the Renaissance and Baroque; the literature of imperial expansion into Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

The modern European conception of literature as in Schlegel's Fragments and the break with the belles lettres tradition. Topics include: the 19th-century gap between Europe and Latin American society; absence of middle classes and rise of the intellectual in spheres of power; colonial heritage; role of positivism (Comte) and evolutionism, including Sarmiento's Facundo and Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões; documentalism and national identity; slow growth of intellectual presence. Notable exception: Machado de Assis' novels D. Casmurro and Esaú e Jacó.