{"product_id":"you-can-t-get-there-from-here-1","title":"You Can’t Get There From Here","description":"\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’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","brand":"By Ryan Porter\u003cBR\u003e","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54834472911228,"sku":"9781487519742","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781487519742.jpg?v=1733228888","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/you-can-t-get-there-from-here-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}