Name: You Can't Get There from Here: The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction (en Inglés)
Price: 117.15 USD
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Author: Porter, Ryan
ISBN: 9781487504243

portada You Can't Get There from Here: The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Ryan Porter

Editorial

University of Toronto Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.4 x 16.0 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781487504243

Categorías

Canadá
Historia y crítica literaria
Historia de américa

You Can't Get There from Here: The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction (en Inglés)

Ryan Porter (Autor) · University of Toronto Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "You Can't Get There from Here: The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction (en Inglés)"

Rather 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.Referencing the theories of heritage scholars, who view popularly understood pasts as constructions shaped by changing sensibilities, You Can't Get There from Here 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.