Two Cultures? Science and Literature
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5EN472
Main group 1
A selection among the following titles is made by the teacher.
- Ballard, J. G., The complete short stories, London, Flamingo, 2001 (A selection of short stories.)
- Bear, Greg, Blood music., London, Vista, 1998
- The Faber book of science, London, Faber and Faber, 1995
- Dawkins, Richard, The Oxford book of modern science writing, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008
- Eliot, George, Middlemarch, London, Penguin, 1994
- Frayn, Michael, Copenhagen, New York, Anchor Books, 2000
- Heath-Stubbs, John; Salman, Phillips, Poems of science, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1984
- Levi, Primo, The periodic table, [New ed.], London, Joseph, 1985
- Mitchell, David, Cloud atlas: novel, New York, Random House, 2004
- Pynchon, Thomas, The crying of lot 49, 1st Harper Perennial modern classics ed., New York, Harper Perennial, 2006, c1966
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Hindle, Maurice, Frankenstein: or the modern Prometheus, Rev. ed., London, Penguin, 2003
- Stephenson, Neal., Quicksilver: volume one of the Baroque cykle, London, Arrow, cop. 2004
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Weir of Hermiston, Oxford, Oxford U. P., 1987
- Wells, H. G., The island of Doctor Moreau, London, Penguin, 2012
- Wells, H. G., The time machine, New ed., London, Everyman, 2002
- Wells, H. G., Sleeper Awakes, The
- Wilde, Oscar; Murray, Isobel, The picture of Dorian Gray, Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, 1998
Additional course reading in conjunction with project work, selected in consultation with the teacher.