Abstract
The article traces the baroque style of Javier Marias's third novel 'El Siglo'. A detailed examination of voice, sentence structure, diction, rhetorical devices, and figures reveals the marked influence of seventeenth-century English prose writing, and Sir Thomas Browne's in particular, whilst showing that the self-conscious and self-indulgent accentuation of stylistic features means that the content is at the service of form, that the medium determines the message, and the the style ultimately becomes the true spectacle of the novel.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 94-107 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Modern Language Review |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 2002 |