{"product_id":"you-cant-get-there-from-here-the-past-as-present-in-small-town-ontario-fiction-hardback-9781487504243","title":"You Can't Get There from Here; The Past As Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction (Hardback) 9781487504243","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eYou Can't Get There from Here\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Past As Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRyan Porter (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487504243\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 April 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ryan Porter\u0026amp;#x2019;s insightful study, \u003ci\u003eYou Can\u0026amp;#x2019;t Get There From Here: The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, observes the extent to which the canonical rural Ontario writing that participates in the small-town myth is produced from an urban vantage point.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - André Narbonne (\u003cem\u003eAmerican Review of Canadian Studies \u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than reading small-town representations in Canadian literature as portraits of a parochial past or a lost golden age, this book claims that they are best understood as sophisticated statements on the effects of modernity in an ever-more cosmopolitan world. In Ontario, as urbanization increased over the past century, small towns became a popular literary trope, and Ryan Porter argues that literary small towns are reflections, and even sublimated explorations, of contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferencing the theories of heritage scholars, who view popularly understood pasts as constructions shaped by changing sensibilities, \u003ci\u003eYou Can\u0026amp;#x2019;t Get There from Here\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the literary small-town Ontario past is malleable, consisting of attempts to come to terms with the present in which the narrators find themselves. The book focuses on four key Ontario authors – Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and Jane Urquhart – as well as many secondary authors, and links the readings to much broader trends in actual Ontario towns and in popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Projecting Difference − The Heritage of Small-Town and Rural Ontario\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Rural Past and Urban Present: Landscape as Time\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Saying Goodbye to Mariposa: Rebutting the Small-Town Convention\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Memory and Departure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One: Synthesizing Memory – The Artist as Community\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Departure, Return, Departure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Past Dependencies and Consolatory Histories\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Reflecting on Nostalgia\u0026amp;#x2019;s Restoration\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorks Cited and Consulted\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595468632344,"sku":"9781487504243","price":35.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/you-cant-get-there-from-here-the-past-as-present-in-small-town-ontario-fiction-hardback-9781487504243","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}