Definition of autopathography in US English:

autopathography

nounPlural autopathographiesˌôdōpəˈTHäɡrəfēˌôdōpəˈTHäɡrəfē

An autobiography dealing primarily with the influence of a disease, disability, or psychological disorder on the author's life.
Example sentencesExamples
- Gay and straight, conventional and decadent, scientist and journalist, celebrity and commoner - the past decade has seen a flood of autopathography.
- Her autopathography, ‘A Clean Breast of It,’ answers tough questions about cancer while transcending the standard ‘survivor story’.
- Her most recent publication was an autopathography appearing in the August 2004 edition of Redbook magazine.
- The autopathography of Paul Schreber who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia was published in 1903.
- By offering readings of a broad range of narratives within the parameters of autobiography and these four illnesses, this critical text functions well as an introduction to the study of contemporary autopathography.
- It is an autopathography which focuses on the lessons learned primarily by the protagonist, his wife, children and family.
- But despite this book's being dismissed rather peevishly as "autopathography" by the New York Times, it is not self-indulgent.
- Extending ‘pathography,’ the term coined by Joyce Carol Oates for reductive biographies, this is autopathography - by no means the same as confession.
- The genre of the illness narrative (pathography and autopathography) is flourishing these days.

Origin

Blend of autobiography and pathography.

Definition of autopathography in US English:

autopathography

nounˌôdōpəˈTHäɡrəfē

An autobiography dealing primarily with the influence of a disease, disability, or psychological disorder on the author's life.
Example sentencesExamples
- Her most recent publication was an autopathography appearing in the August 2004 edition of Redbook magazine.
- It is an autopathography which focuses on the lessons learned primarily by the protagonist, his wife, children and family.
- The genre of the illness narrative (pathography and autopathography) is flourishing these days.
- Her autopathography, ‘A Clean Breast of It,’ answers tough questions about cancer while transcending the standard ‘survivor story’.
- Gay and straight, conventional and decadent, scientist and journalist, celebrity and commoner - the past decade has seen a flood of autopathography.
- Extending ‘pathography,’ the term coined by Joyce Carol Oates for reductive biographies, this is autopathography - by no means the same as confession.
- By offering readings of a broad range of narratives within the parameters of autobiography and these four illnesses, this critical text functions well as an introduction to the study of contemporary autopathography.
- But despite this book's being dismissed rather peevishly as "autopathography" by the New York Times, it is not self-indulgent.
- The autopathography of Paul Schreber who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia was published in 1903.

Origin

Blend of autobiography and pathography.

词汇	autopathography
释义	Definition of autopathography in US English: autopathography nounPlural autopathographiesˌôdōpəˈTHäɡrəfēˌôdōpəˈTHäɡrəfē An autobiography dealing primarily with the influence of a disease, disability, or psychological disorder on the author's life. Example sentencesExamples Gay and straight, conventional and decadent, scientist and journalist, celebrity and commoner - the past decade has seen a flood of autopathography. Her autopathography, ‘A Clean Breast of It,’ answers tough questions about cancer while transcending the standard ‘survivor story’. Her most recent publication was an autopathography appearing in the August 2004 edition of Redbook magazine. The autopathography of Paul Schreber who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia was published in 1903. By offering readings of a broad range of narratives within the parameters of autobiography and these four illnesses, this critical text functions well as an introduction to the study of contemporary autopathography. It is an autopathography which focuses on the lessons learned primarily by the protagonist, his wife, children and family. But despite this book's being dismissed rather peevishly as "autopathography" by the New York Times, it is not self-indulgent. Extending ‘pathography,’ the term coined by Joyce Carol Oates for reductive biographies, this is autopathography - by no means the same as confession. The genre of the illness narrative (pathography and autopathography) is flourishing these days. Origin Blend of autobiography and pathography. Definition of autopathography in US English: autopathography nounˌôdōpəˈTHäɡrəfē An autobiography dealing primarily with the influence of a disease, disability, or psychological disorder on the author's life. Example sentencesExamples Her most recent publication was an autopathography appearing in the August 2004 edition of Redbook magazine. It is an autopathography which focuses on the lessons learned primarily by the protagonist, his wife, children and family. The genre of the illness narrative (pathography and autopathography) is flourishing these days. Her autopathography, ‘A Clean Breast of It,’ answers tough questions about cancer while transcending the standard ‘survivor story’. Gay and straight, conventional and decadent, scientist and journalist, celebrity and commoner - the past decade has seen a flood of autopathography. Extending ‘pathography,’ the term coined by Joyce Carol Oates for reductive biographies, this is autopathography - by no means the same as confession. By offering readings of a broad range of narratives within the parameters of autobiography and these four illnesses, this critical text functions well as an introduction to the study of contemporary autopathography. But despite this book's being dismissed rather peevishly as "autopathography" by the New York Times, it is not self-indulgent. The autopathography of Paul Schreber who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia was published in 1903. Origin Blend of autobiography and pathography.
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