Fiction

The Study of Prose Fiction (Reference )
The Novel and the Drama. The Elements of Fiction.
Plot in the Novel. Subject matter in Fiction—The Importance of Fidelity— Plot—The Gift of Storytelling— Loose Plot and Organic Plot—Simple and Compound Plots—Methods of Narration.
Characterisation. Its Elementary Condition—The Mystery of the Creative Process—The Power of Graphic Description—The Analytical and Dramatic Methods of Characterisation—The Character in the Making—The Question of Range in Characterisation—Characterisation and Knowledge of Life.
The Relations of Plot and Character. Their Combination—’Motivation.’
Dialogue. Tests to be applied to it.
Humour, Pathos, and Tragedy. The Quality of the Emotional Element in Fiction—Humour—The Painful Emotions.
Social and Material Setting in Fiction. Setting in the Novel—Specialisation in Modern Fiction —Special Social Settings—Setting in Historical Fiction— The Question of Anachronism—Material Setting—The Use of Nature.
The Novelist’s Criticism of Life. Its Place—The Novelist’s Point of View— Ways of presenting a Criticism of Life in the Novel—The Dramatic, or Indirect Way—The Direct Way—Tests of a Novelist’s Philosophy of Life— Truth in Fiction—Realism—Realism and Romance— Morality in Fiction— The Moral Responsibilities of Fiction. Novels for Students (Reference )
The Death of the Heart.
The Optimist‘s Daughter
The Remains of the Day

William Henery Hudson. An Introduction to Study of Literature. Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd. 2015
Elizabeth Thomason (Editor). Novels for Students. USA: Gale Group. 2002 3.
Sylvan Barnet, William Burto and William E. Cain. An introduction to literature fiction, poetry, and drama, 15th Ed. Longman, 2008.