Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being autobiographical.
... the recording of contemporary details, the use of personal fantasy, the broken narrative method, the showy technical brilliance, the incompleteness of form, the slyly frank autobiographicalness, the inner painfulness .
1965, Martin Burgess Green, Re-appraisals: Some Commonsense Readings in American Literature3 more examples
In contrast to An Iraqi in Paris, there are texts in my corpus in which the autobiographical self is so profoundly entwined in the lives of others that the very autobiographicalness is obscured. This brings out the range of the[…]
2020 February 27, Ariel M. Sheetrit, A Poetics of Arabic Autobiography: Between Dissociation and Belonging, Routledge, →ISBN4 A multitude of debates about the autobiographicalness of various texts, however, belies both of these assertions. To add to the confusion, many of the same European and North American writers of fiction and theory who had proclaimed[…]
2016 January 21, Jonathan Kahana, The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism, Oxford University Press, →ISBNThe grainger Museum can therefore be seen at one end of a spectrum of autobiographicalness of museums, with other museums and collections showing this trait to varying extents and in varying ways. Bibliography and references archivo[…]
2012, Kate Hill, Museums and Biographies: Stories, Objects, Identities, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 291
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Translations
Italian autobiograficità
- autobiograficitàTranslations
Polish autobiograficzność
- autobiograficznośćTranslations
Russian автобиографи́чность
- автобиографи́чность (avtobiografíčnostʹ)Translations
Ukrainian автобіографі́чність
- автобіографі́чність (avtobiohrafíčnistʹ)Translations
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