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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. The “As If” of the Child’s World: An Introduction to Child Language and the Child in Literature 1
6. The Language of Childhood Remembered: Alice Munro and Margaret Laurence 14
7. Perpetual Rebeginnings: The Short Fictions of Clark Blaise 35
8. Stages of Language and Learning in W. O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen the Wind 48
9. Delight Without Judgement: The Language of Visionary Enthusiasm in Ernest Buckler’s The Mountain and the Valley 60
10. Emily Carr and the Language of Small 73
11. Infant Sensibility and Lyric Strategy: P. K. Page, Dorothy Livesay, and Miriam Waddington 87
12. A Play Box Full of Plays: James Reaney’s Colours in the Dark 103
13. Child, Magician, Poet: Playing with the Pre-verbal in Dennis Lee and bill bissett 117
14. After Words 137
15. Bibliographical Notes 139
16. Notes 143
17. Index 155