When is Something Fiction? - Hardcover

A twentieth-century poetics, this book brilliantly investigates the question of fiction "versus "nonfiction and the structure of ideas in literary criticism.Roberts finds a parallel and overlapping concept-structure behind the word poetry, and suggests that the idea of literature critics have today is a combination of such patterns of meaning. Hence, he finds that the ambiguous terminology of criticism, though often a burden to it is also of great service.A striking new kind of criticism, both in its theory and its format, "When Is Something Fiction? "will prove valuable to literary critics, but it will be of great interest also to philosophers and students of culture."

Thomas J. Roberts is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. His critical articles have appeared in "College English "and elsewhere."