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autotelic
autotelic
English
Adjective
autotelic (comparative more autotelic, superlative most autotelic)
- (of an entity or event) Containing its own meaning or purpose.
- (of a person) Deriving meaning and purpose from within.
- (art, of a work of art or literature) Not motivated by anything beyond itself, thematically self-contained.
- 1989, Michael Davidson, The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-century, Cambridge University Press (1991), ISBN 978-0-521-42304-5, page 112:
- “Running Water Music II” represents a contemporary version of the autotelic poem, freer than its modernist predecessors to assert connections, celebrate openly, declare connections between self and world, but bound by semantic and imagistic frames that derive from a single source.
- 1989, Michael Davidson, The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-century, Cambridge University Press (1991), ISBN 978-0-521-42304-5, page 112:
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Translations
containing its own meaning or purpose
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deriving meaning and purpose from within
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not motivated by anything beyond itself
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