LE3 .A278 1997

1997

Baron, David

Acadia University

Master of Arts

Masters

English

English & Theatre Studies

This thesis asserts that subtle and diffuse systems of contextual equivalences constitute the poetic dimension of realistic novels. It then proceeds to identify certain of the major systems perceived in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion and explores the diversity of their manifestations. The analysis focuses on three equivalence systems which are among the central organizing principles of the novel and that roughly coincide, respectively, with the three sections of the work; the first based on division and exclusion, the second on change, conversion, and metamorphosis, and the third on similarity and equivalency.

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