Coursework single author

Please find below the coursework questions for this module. The expected word count for each essay is 2000-2,500 words, not including your bibliography. You are expected to answer ONE question for each coursework. Coursework One is a single author study which requires you to address your writing primarily or entirely to ONE author chosen from the module. The essays will be graded and moderated with 10% allocated to grammar and spelling, 10% to the quality of the bibliography and in-text citation (which should adhere to Coventry University Harvard Style), 30% to coherence and structure of argument, 20% to originality of argument, and 30% to how closely your argument addresses the topic question. Coursework One: Write with reference to OTHER works by your chosen author, as well as relevant literary criticism, literary theory and historicisation. 1. How are the ideas in your chosen author’s journalism reflected, complicated, or contradicted in their fiction? 2. Is the journalism or fiction of your chosen author more effective? 3. What role does journalism and journalists play in the fiction of your chosen author? 4. How does your chosen author use journalistic elements in his/her fiction? The following texts and authors have been studied during this semester; • Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels • Jonathan Swift - 'A Modest Proposal • Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe • Daniel Defoe - THE True and Genuine ACCOUNT OF the LIFE and ACTIONS Of the Late JONATHAN WILD • Middlemarch - George Eliot • 'The Natural History of German Life' and 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists' - George Eliot • Oliver Twist (chapters 1-3) - Charles Dickens • Dickens on Paris • Wapping Workhouse (chapter 3 in the document) - Dickens • Hemingway - Two Kansas City Star stories, plus background docs and letters • Hemingway article on Parisian Ex-pats • Hemingway article on Bullfighting • The Honeyed Peace - Martha Gellhorn • "Come Ahead, Adolf!" - Martha Gellhorn • "Obituary of a Democracy" - Martha Gellhorn • "Dachau Experimentalism" - Martha Gellhorn • "Hangdog Herrenvolk" - Martha Gellhorn • 1984 - George Orwell • "Why I Write" - George Orwell • The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume II • Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange • "Language's Underbelly" - Anthony Burgess • "Codes of Youth" - Anthony Burgess • The Quiet American - Graham Greene • "The Naked and the Dead", Norman Mailer • "The Spooky Art - Thoughts on Writing", Norman Mailer • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas • Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail • A Book of Common Prayer - Joan Didion • Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin • Salvador - Joan Didion • Capital - John Lanchester • IOU - John Lanchester • How to Speak Money - John Lanchester • A True Story - Mark Twain • Martin Amis muses on the Fourth Estate • Martin Amis - London Fields