autobiographicalize

English

Etymology

From autobiographical +‎ -ize.

Verb

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

1. (transitive, literature) To convert into an autobiography.
   • 1991, Paul John Eakin, American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     ... 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 […]

   • 1997, Michael Datcher, Kwame Alexander, Tough Love: The Life and Death of Tupac Shakur, Cultural Criticism and Familial Observations, Kwame Alexander:

     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.

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

     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 […]

Translations

Translations

• Polish: autobiografizować (pl) impf