What's the difference between autobiographical and biographical?

Autobiographical


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using autobiographical data some of the intra- and inter-personal strategies for coping with the disease are outlined.
  • (2) It is the difficulty in transmitting the truth of violence.” Last year, Louis, who has been compared to the Norwegian autobiographical novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard , published his second book, Histoire de la Violence (story of violence), based on an incident when he was throttled and raped by an Algerian man he picked up in the street on Christmas Eve.
  • (3) Adult age and openness to experience were examined as predictors of autobiographical memory in a group of men and women ranging from 25 to 85 years of age.
  • (4) This study investigated the ability of right hemisphere damaged (RHD) patients to recall autobiographical material in response to emotional versus nonemotional cues.
  • (5) Two studies explored potential bases for reality monitoring (Johnson & Raye, 1981) of naturally occurring autobiographical events.
  • (6) Also, it's funny because ever since Prep [Sittenfeld's debut 2005 novel , about a teenage girl who goes to boarding school on a scholarship] came out, I think I have been mistaken for writing more autobiographically than I do.
  • (7) A biography by David Shields and Shane Salemo claims Salinger completed a string of works, including autobiographical material and stories, for which he planned a release over the coming decades.
  • (8) It’s rainy and people are saying the same things over and over again.” Unlike many other shows on the fringe, which prize storytelling above big laughs, there will be no theme to the show, no confessional narrative or autobiographical arc.
  • (9) Subjects furnished autobiographical accounts of being angered (victim narratives) and of angering someone else (perpetrator narratives).
  • (10) The article argues for an approach to autobiographical memory that takes into account sociocultural and developmental determinants of memorability as well as internal mechanisms of the cognitive system.
  • (11) Klein has now worked her serrated humor into a debut collection of autobiographical essays, titled You’ll Grow Out Of It , published in the US this week.
  • (12) It is impossible to read Heseltine's report and not be struck by the autobiographical quality of his writing.
  • (13) These results are explained within a 'descriptions' theory of autobiographical memory, and the remedial implications are discussed.
  • (14) If bookshops reserved a shelf for Autobiographical Car Crash, Getting Over the X would be a category gem, and many readers may struggle to believe that its ghost writer was not Craig Brown .
  • (15) So…" Of all Wesker's work, it is Chicken Soup with Barley that is the most autobiographical.
  • (16) He calls special attention to the interpersonal aspect and to the therapeutic function of anamnesis as well as autobiographical writing.
  • (17) "I suggest that six centuries before the first scientific report, Dante … depicted narcolepsy with cataplexy (NC) in his literary works as an autobiographical trait," writes Giuseppe Plazzi of the University of Bologna's department of biomedical and neuro-motor sciences in an article for the Sleep Medicine journal .
  • (18) It is suggested that the grandmother, having played an important role in the growth, development, and artistic flowering of the autobiographer, can become a model and source of empowerment for future generations.
  • (19) The same judges also categorized memory sources as autobiographical episodes, abstract self-references, or semantic knowledge.
  • (20) High point Writing her first novel, the semi-autobiographical Postcards From the Edge, and adapting it for the film version starring Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale, a star fresh out of rehab.

Biographical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to biography; containing biography.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (2) In the course of the years, López Ibor came to the conclusion that anxious thymopathy was not an independent nosological entity, rather that vital (also called endothymic) anxiety was an element present in all forms of neurotic disorders integrated with personality and biographical factors.
  • (3) It brought back Thatcher biographer Hugo Young's words for a front page portrait that offered criticism as well as praise for her legacy.
  • (4) Read more Some biographical details in the forms are not consistent with known information.
  • (5) After this all patients were given three questionnaires: Symptom Questionnaire, Illness Behaviour Questionnaire and a Biographic Questionnaire prepared specifically for this study.
  • (6) Quantitative data collected included a range of biographical detail, an outline of career patterns, professional qualifications and specific preparation undertaken for the teaching role.
  • (7) The profile’s biographical sentence read: “The official account of Andy Burnham’s campaign to be Labour’s candidate for mayor of Greater Manchester.” The account retained all its followers, although all the old tweets had been deleted.
  • (8) The biographer of James Maxton, a Scots leftwinger with his own iconic status, he knows about party loyalties and tribal heroes.
  • (9) But the bigger question, the one that has vexed historians, biographers and holocaust experts for eight decades, is why she was there.
  • (10) But with quotation now limited to fair dealing most of this will have to go, and the new version will be much more biographical.
  • (11) Hence, biographical anamnesis can be obligatory, supplying information that is essential for a therapeutic approach.
  • (12) The hopes which detente aroused remain, on the whole, unfulfilled while Macmillan's part in returning Russian prisoners of war to Stalin in 1945 will need explanation to his biographer.
  • (13) Speaking through his biographer Joseph Farrell, Fo recalled his grandfather, an acclaimed storyteller, who would travel from village to village selling vegetables from a horse-drawn cart that the young Fo was allowed to drive.
  • (14) This paper elucidates their mutual relationship and corrects biographical inaccuracies concerning George Huntington and George Sumner Huntington.
  • (15) More on The Butler • The Butler: first-look review • News: Barack Obama 'teared up' watching The Butler • News: Reagan biographers attack The Butler's portrayal
  • (16) This has been disputed by Wilde's recent biographer Neil McKenna, who has argued that Wilde had a sexual relationship with Frank Miles in 1876 – but McKenna's book was published in 2003, and this film was made in 1997.
  • (17) It tries to influence the biographical development.
  • (18) 22 female patients with aphonia underwent laryngoscopic and phonic examinations, psychiatric evaluation, psychological testing and biographical history-taking.
  • (19) The successful musical Fela!, about the life of the Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, recently had to defend itself against $5 million claim from his official biographer on the grounds that it failed to credit his book asa source for the production.
  • (20) For a comprehensive approach to psychic risk factors and their treatment and prevention anxiety, depression, important experiences in life and individual biographic constellations are equally important.

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