Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Hamburg (Insitut f?r Anglistik), course: "Alternate Worlds" Utopian and Counterfictional English Fiction from the late 19th Century to the 1990's, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction (...) Island is a novel of ideas, light on the novel-part and heavy on the ideas. In fact it could also be seen as an essay with a...