The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autobiographic \Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic\, Autobiographical
\Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al\, a.
Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an
autobiographical sketch. ``Such traits of the autobiographic
sort.''
--Carlyle. -- Au`to*bi`o*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of an autobiographer; "he seldom suppressed his autobiographical tendencies" [syn: autobiographic]
relating to or in the style of an autobiography; "they compiled an autobiographical history of the movement" [syn: autobiographic]
Usage examples of "autobiographical".
The experiencing self in his autobiographical narrative is disciplined by an overarching intelligence that keeps directing the storytelling toward the pole of analysis.
Kundera has created around it, by framing it with two autobiographical chapters where the sharp edge of laughter is turned against himself.
The cruel incongruity of that stab of angelic joy in the midst of the pain of dying is the emotional nexus linking the autobiographical vignette to the nightmarish fantasy.
Grant had told Ruth that she should get off her high horse about not writing autobiographical fiction.
Explore the ideas of fiction and imagination and the autobiographical ingredients of writing.
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Second, the great majority of first novels are autobiographical to a great extent and as such must be narrated in the first person.
At this point we wish to answer a question students often bring up about the autobiographical novel.
Assuming that the beginning writer will first try to write an autobiographical novel, we have some words of advice on selecting a viewpoint.
And how beautifully Montaigne combines the generalization with the anecdote, the homily with the autobiographical reminiscence!
Cardan left as his contribution to letters and science, except in the case of those works which are, in purpose or incidentally, autobiographical, or of those which furnish in themselves effective contributions towards the framing of an estimate of the genius and character of the writer.
Introduction concludes that Sartre will ultimately be remembered for his literary biographies and autobiographical writings, rather than for his novels and plays.
Unfortunately, there is reason to distrust the autobiographical information of neurotics.
Chekhov is the autobiographical foundation of the ten Nick Adams stories, which treat the bruising passage from childhood into adolescence and adulthood.
Nevertheless, any reader hoping for autobiographical confessions is soon disappointed!