Amelia

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface 3
4. Rhythms of Discovery 8
5. Portrait of the Artist as Young Pup 35
6. Journal Intime 50
7. Notes On Realism in Modern English-Canadian Fiction 65
8. Culture as Caricature 72
9. Why and How and Why not and What is This, About Starting Another Novel… 98
10. The Countries of Invention 104
11. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction 109
12. Local Culture and the National Will 124
13. Mere Self 132
14. Avenues of Research Suggested by the Fletchers Castoria Box 139
15. The End of Emma 148
16. Le Jardin Reve 164
17. “Has Anyone Here Heard of Marjorie Pickthall?” 173
18. My Final Hour 187
19. All Aboa-R-Rd! 200
20. Petite Hist01Re D’Une Obsession 207
21. Auschwitz 213
22. Entering In 219
23. Confessions of a Commercial Writer 242
24. Ontario Culture and – What? 252
25. The Canadian Climate 258
26. Amelia 264
27. Are Canadians Politically Naive? 287
28. Basmati Rice 312
29. Influences 323
30. The Art of Blackmail 329
31. On Coming to British Columbia 339
32. On Death and Writing 354
33. A Cycle of Ind 362
34. Contributors 376