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This work introduces the philosophy of literature from an analytic perspective. Topics include: the definition of literature; the distinction between oral and written literature and the identity of literary works; and the

Since its launch in 1987 Textual Practice has been Britain's principal international journal of radical literary studies, continually pressing theory into new engagements.

By utilising a mixture of styles - narrative and life history, ethnographic observation and the diary kept by Mohammed, a Swahili peasant, this book grapples with issues raised by personal narratives, authorial

Philosophical Shakespeares focuses on and encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and philosophy. The approach is interdisciplinary and includes problem-centred readings of particular plays.

Ronald Mellor demonstrates that Roman historical writing was regarded by its authors as a literary, not a scholarly exercise, and how it must be evaluated in that context.

This work introduces the philosophy of literature from an analytic perspective. Topics include: the definition of literature; the distinction between oral and written literature and the identity of literary works; and the