![]() ![]() It was also of great significance in MacLennan's life: MacLennan was a child Ship in Halifax Harbour in 1917 was an event of national and international importance, an event MacLennan termed "more improbable than any novelist's plot" ("Potted Palm" 188). Novels give shape and meaning to the history and fictions by using archetypes from ancient literature. ![]() The Skin of a Lion with MacLennan's Barometer Rising (1941) reveals that Ondaatje's novel both challenges and has significantīoth Barometer Rising and In the Skin of a Lion juxtapose real events in twentieth-century Canadian history with fictions both The contemporary period in Canadian fiction (Roy Daniells, cited in McPherson, "Fiction" 211). MacLennan's work, in contrast, has been called "typical of the main development in recent Canadian fiction" (McPherson, "Fiction"Ģ14) MacLennan has been named !"the father of the Canadian novel" (Mandel 112) and categorized as the representative novelist of Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion (1987) has been termed "ex-centric" (Hutcheon, "Ex-Centric" 132 Postmodern 94). ![]()
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