autobiographicalize

verb

To convert into an autobiography.

Scrabble 38

Meanings

verbautobiographicalize (third-person singular simple present autobiographicalizes, present participle autobiographicalizing, simple past and past participle autobiographicalized)

present singular third person autobiographicalizes · participle present autobiographicalizing · participle past autobiographicalized · past autobiographicalized

  1. transitiveliteratureTo convert into an autobiography.

    It is to speak of a little boy lost but searching, for a father, for direction, for justice, for peace. To tell his story in connection with brothers of the past is to autobiographicalize our current generation.

    1997, Michael Datcher, Kwame Alexander, Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur, Cultural Criticism and Familial Observations, Kwame Alexander
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    ... on the other hand, they were encouraged to autobiographicalize traditional fictive forms, as Dickinson did when she turned hymns into monodramas. These crossings between autobiography and the fictive were regulated by the strong[…]

    1991, Paul John Eakin, American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 50

    Instead, Savory's sharp eye for details, his method of choosing material, of considering what is cinematic and what is not; all hint at some self - indulgent autobiographicalizing on Greene's part. " It is all a question of choice[…]

    2008, William Thomas Hill, Lonely Without God: Graham Greene's Quixotic Journey of Faith, Academica PressLlc

    Synonyms: autobiographize

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo convert into an autobiography.

Origin

Translations

Polish autobiografizować
  • autobiografizowaćTranslations
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