Pathography
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pathography is a noun meaning A biography that highlights the negative aspects of its subject's life.
Meaning
A biography that highlights the negative aspects of its subject's life.
More Meanings
- (medicine) A biography that explores the effects of a disease on its subject's life.
Example Sentences
Though this has been an era of magisterial biographies by such writers as Leon Edel, Richard Ellmann, Joseph Frank, Judith Thurman and Justin Kaplan, among others, it has also evolved a new subspecies of the genre to which the name "pathography" might usefully be given: hagiography's diminished and often prurient twin.
One would think there is little to be added, if only because of the avalanche of books — biographies, meta-biographies, pathographies (to borrow Joyce Carol Oates’s term), memoirs, critical studies, letters, journals, novels — that have been published about Plath since her suicide (which, for some people, is the only thing they know about her).
Word Forms
- pathographies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include autopathography, pathophys, pathematology, macropathology, pathometry, pathosis.
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