When Is Something Fiction - Hardcover

A twentieth-century “poetics,” this book brilliantly investigates the question of fictionversus 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.