Side-by-side writing works as follows: It is not a writing feedback group. It’s just a way to make writing progress while hanging out with friends and colleagues (this is also known as: zwei Fliegen auf einen Streich). Read More »
Reading Group, Fall/Winter 2020/21 Read More »
The literary works of Marlen Haushofer and Sibylle Berg intersect in their avoidance of “happy endings”, their accounts of death, destruction, and apocalyptic events as well as their portrayals of failing ideals such as romantic love and the concept of family... Read More »
Irrespective of whether Leichtgläubigkeit (gullibility) is a positive or negative term, connotationally it compels us to pick a side, and thus favours partiality in the directions of Vorurteil... Read More »
Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto