Elements of Fiction and Their Interplay in Critical Literary Analysis

Reading fiction is a skill that brings the texts alive especially when the reader interacts with them. We read to widen our experiences and thus grow personally and intellectually. Although the reader realizes that fiction does not necessarily have to represent true historical details, yet we read to become involved, interested, stimulated and absorbed as we follow the fictional characters who change and grow as they face problems and fail or succeed in overcoming them. This book starts by examining all the elements of fiction in Part One. Then, in Part Two it portrays the interplay of these elements as seen in three critical literary analysis articles. This book should be useful to both literature instructors and their students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities who wish to not only comprehend the elements of fiction, but also monitor how they are used in literary critical analysis of fiction.