Autotelic vs Selfsome - What's the difference?
autotelic | selfsome |
(of an entity or event) Containing its own meaning or purpose.
(of a person) Deriving meaning and purpose from within.
(arts, 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,
(neologism) of or characteristic of self or one's self.
self-centered; self-moving, self-motivated.
self-sufficient; autotelic.
isolate, isolated, alone
As adjectives the difference between autotelic and selfsome
is that autotelic is (of an entity or event) containing its own meaning or purpose while selfsome is (neologism) of or characteristic of self or one's self.autotelic
English
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(en adjective)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.
References
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