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

by Ryan Porter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487504241
• ISBN13: 9781487504243
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher