Books by Douglas Robinson

Both a comparative study of Russian and German literary-theoretical history and an insightful examination of the somatics of literature, this groundbreaking work provides a deeper understanding of how literature affects the reader and offers a new perspective on present-day problems in poststructuralist approaches to the human condition.

This title consolidates the many disparate action-approaches to language into a single coherent new paradigm for the study of language as speech act, as performance - as doing things with words.

An introduction to pragmatics exploring a range of approaches to this action-oriented study of language. This book includes discussion questions, an on-line teacher's guide and short biographies of key figures aid further study.