When Is Something Fiction?

by Thomas J. Roberts and Associate Professor Thomas J. Roberts Ph.D.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080930578X
• ISBN13: 9780809305780
• Release Date: October 1972
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 8.3"