You Can't Get There From Here
The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction
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2019
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0424-3 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0424-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
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.
Ryan Porter is Professor of Technical Communication at Algonquin College.
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.05.2019 |
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Verlagsort | Toronto |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 165 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 460 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4875-0424-1 / 1487504241 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-0424-3 / 9781487504243 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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