{"product_id":"you-cant-get-there-from-here-9781487504243","title":"You Cant Get There From Here","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ryan Porter’s insightful study, You Can’t Get There From Here: The Past as Present in Small-Town Ontario Fiction, observes the extent to which the canonical rural Ontario writing that participates in the small-town myth is produced from an urban vantage point.\" -- André Narbonne * \u003cem\u003eAmerican Review of Canadian Studies \u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187719758167,"sku":"9781487504243","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/you-cant-get-there-from-here-9781487504243","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}