Baroque Prose: the s. XVII Renaissance narrative styles are some that come in clear decline. k characterizes the prose is noivela settlement of the picaresque and the expression of a sensibility that can only be transmitted with an innovative style, hard and sharp, resulting in novel ideas.
-Picaresque novel in the s. XVII: Matthew German:
* No national sevilla (1547), graduated from high school but did not finish medical studies that inicio.sus different jobs including that of judge of commission in the royal administration will not solve economic problems that led him to jail for debt. voyage to America in 1608 and public events of Fray Garcia, archbishop of Mexico, in whose service he worked. since 1612 no more tubieron hearing.
* his most famous work, first part of the life of the rogue Guzman, Appeared in 1599 and, being plagiarized published in 1604 the second part of the life of Guzman, watchtower of human life by German mateo its true author.
* work told in 1st person. Episodes of the most significant protagonistaa life interspersed with numerous moral reflections that contrast with the harshness of many exploits of the protagonist. sorry about the tb and rebukes the narrator.
"The novel of ideas: Baltasar García:
born in Belmonte (1601-1658), near Calatayud. command was ordained in 1627 in the company of Jesus. Public works under a pseudonym, without permission from his order with whom he had conflicted relationships.
works: the political, discreet, and art manual oracle of wisdom, wit and ingenuity art ... are brief and concise style, with antithesis, alipsis and parallels.
the Criticon is the best known. appeared in 3 parts and place an allegory of life:the first niuñez and summer from Juventus, the fall of the virile age, 1653 and the winter of old age, 1657.

The Baroque lyric: reaching a high level during this period. the formal perfection of the stanzas, either traditional, such as romance or introduced into the Renaissance, like the sonnet, which triumphed in the XVI century abia. the subjects are treated by the poets as the tempus fugit tags or love carpe diem or post mortem Renaissance as mythology, or mock treated seriously and of course the new Baroque era, as the disillusionment and pessimism to elm old age and death, or Spanish decadence and corruption.
the language needed to be renewed, the Baroque poets encotraron two solutions are not oponesn: culteranismo and the concept, two new trends based on language and concept.
-culteranismo: with Gongora, inenta obscure how to hinder its compresnsion by Latinos and syntax altered, with much hyperbaton. Author: Quevedo and grace.
the two trends esxpresivos accumulate resources away from the Renaissance naturalism: metaphor, antithesis, contrasts, dilogias, pun ..., are figures who play with the meanings and double meanings