English: Islands in Western literature

Course

EN2116

Second cycle

7.5 credits (ECTS)

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About the Reading list

Valid from

Autumn semester 2026 (2026-08-31)

Decision date

2026-06-01

Ballard, J. G. (1973) Concrete Island. Any edition. pp. 160.

Defoe, Daniel. (2004) Robinson Crusoe, ed. John Richetti. Penguin. pp. 240.

More, Thomas. (2009) Utopia, trans. Paul Turner. Penguin. pp. 150.

Plato. (2008) Timaeus and Critias , trans. Robin Waterfield, Oxford UP. pp. 140.

Schalansky, Judith. (2012) Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will. Penguin. pp. 240.

Riquet, Johannes. (2019) The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics. Oxford UP. pp. 370.

Shakespeare, William. (2014) The Tempest, ed. Stephen Orgel. Oxford UP. pp. 200.

Woolf, Virgina. To the Lighthouse. Any edition. pp. 250.

Selection of articles and critical material, app. pp. 200.