Ryan Porter

You Can't Get There from Here

The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces literary representations of small-town Ontario in the last century and concludes that small-town Ontario takes the form of whatever is needed by the urban narrator who recalls it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781487504243
• ISBN-10: 1487504241
• Artikelnr.: 54618561

Autorenporträt

By Ryan Porter

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Projecting Difference ¿ The Heritage of Small-Town and Rural
Ontario
1 Rural Past and Urban Present: Landscape as Time
2 Saying Goodbye to Mariposa: Rebutting the Small-Town Convention
3 Memory and Departure
Part One: Synthesizing Memory - The Artist as Community
Part Two: Departure, Return, Departure
4 Past Dependencies and Consolatory Histories
Conclusion: Reflecting on Nostalgia’s Restoration
Works Cited and Consulted
Index