2022 IB Diploma Extended Essays

Extended Essay

Subject: English A – Literature HL (Category 2)

Topic : The Use of the ‘Grotesque’ in Southern Noir; A comparative investigation into the fiction of Donald Ray Pollock and Cormac McCarthy

Research Question: How do Donald Ray Pollock and Cormac McCarthy employ the use of the ‘Grotesque’ in Knockemstiff and Child of God , to highlight the raw and twisted nature of being human?

Word Count: 3914

IBO Personal Code: jsw945

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