1、Christmas Floyd Dell Discussion What are your impressions of the child? Discuss the boys life as reflected in the essay. Why didnt he know the real picture of the life? How did his parents reveal the practical life to the boy? What do you feel after you read this essay? What is the style of this sel
2、ection? Is it formal or informal? Why? What are the grammatical and lexical features of this selection? What is the tone of this selection?Autobiographical Essaya term of Greek origin autobiographyself life writingthe authors own historyBiographya form of nonfictional writing hard biography: like ha
3、rd history and hard news, present the facts, that is the wh-elements of the life of the subject, in an objective manner, without any subjectivity of the accounter soft biography: accounts the history of the subject, with materials selected and ordered by the accounter, and with the accounters interp
4、retation of the materials and his or her presentation of the significance of the subject Biographical essay:essay of biographical contentincludes the hagiography, the diary or the journal, the memoir, the character sketch, the anecdote, etc.Floyd Dell (18871969 ), U.S. versatile and prolific writer
5、and editor for several newspapers and magazines Floyd Dell was born in Illinois. His father found it difficult to find regular work and the family experienced a great deal of poverty. At school Dell developed a love of reading. Some books helped convert him to socialism. At sixteen, he joined the So
6、cialist Party and gave speeches on street-corners about his political beliefs. Dell began his literary career as a newspaperman in Chicago on various papers including Evening Post. In 1911 he became editor of and chief contributor to Friday Literary Review. He promoted the works of writers such as F
7、rank Norris, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Stephen Crane, George Bernard Shaw, et al. Dell believed that the everyday life of the middle and working classes provided subjects worthy of serious literary treatment. Dell valued authenticity and accuracy of detail and welcomed those writers who wanted to use literature to bring about social reform.
