autobiographic
- adjective
- /ˌɔːtəbaɪˈɡræfɪk/
- Aurora Borealice is an autobiographic novel that shares my journey of self-discovery and transformation.
Examples
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Aurora Borealice is the first of four autobiographic novels that chronicle my quest to find a voice in a rapidly changing technological world.
Blog text (5) -
The human must be reformulated according to the very shiny which exceeds it, namely the autobiographic function of writing, which writes itself and whose structure takes the form of an inability to be reduced to an end.
Academic text (1998) -
I imagine part of it must be autobiographic graphical.
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The autobiographic genre took on its full dimension and richness when Western man acquired a thoroughly historical understanding of his existence.
Academic text (1998) -
This duplicative operation mobilizes those of Kawara's series considered most autobiographic, the series which always start with T (I Read, I Met, I Went, I Got Up, I Am Still Alive).
Academic text (1999) -
Undeniably, a degree of autobiographic refusal allies Kawara's project to the quintessentially serial one outlined by Sol LeWitt:
Academic text (1999) -
Their poetry is also described as autobiographic, but only qualifiedly may we speak of autobiography in a decade when semantic categories and canonical genres were already being eroded.
Academic text (2001) -
In fact, over the next two hundred years, these confessions may be the most ubiquitous form of the autobiographic genre, comprising tens of thousands of curricula vitae narrated to the investigators of the Spanish Inquisition.
Academic text (2000) -
The director's latest film is based on her autobiographic experiences growing up in a small town.
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Her autobiographic essays reveal the challenges she faced during her childhood and how they shaped her identity.
Synonyms
About a person's own life and experiences
About the facts and events of a person's life
About a person's life that someone writes as a story
How Personal
Surface Forms
Morphology
autobiographic = autobiography (transparent) = auto + bio + graph + ic
The adjective is a straightforward derivation from the noun 'autobiography' with the productive suffix -ic.
Etymology
Autobiographic comes from the parts auto- meaning 'self', bio- meaning 'life', and -graphic meaning 'writing' or 'picture', like in autobiography and biology. So, an autobiographic work tells a person's own life story.