单词 | self-fashioning |
释义 | self-fashioningn. The action or process of changing or shaping something through one's own efforts or according to one's own wishes. Now more usually: the action or process of constructing one's own identity or public image. Also: an identity constructed in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > self-creation self-creation1659 self-formationa1713 self-fashioning1832 autofacture1868 1832 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. Aug. 14 A will is cast abroad into the widest, wildest element, and gifted also in an extreme degree, to prevail over this, to fashion this to its own form: in which subordinating and self-fashioning of its circumstances, a character properly consists. 1901 E. L. Arnold Lepidus the Centurion xv. 268 Has this little span of life down here exhausted all your capacities of self-fashioning? 1933 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 53 (end matter) (advt.) The author sets himself the task..of making the self-fashioning of Greek Man the object of a new general study of Greek culture. 1980 S. Greenblatt Renaissance Self-fashioning iii. 116 Theological self-fashioning..cannot be long separated from secular self-fashioning. 2015 J. L. Roberts in J. Davis et al. Compan. Amer. Art ii. 37 For the New Historicist, there are no selves, just self-fashionings. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). self-fashioningadj. That makes or forms itself; (of a person) that constructs his or her own identity or public image. Also: having or involving the capacity to do this. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating, fashioning, shaping, or forming > self-creating self-creating1650 self-making1686 self-creative1704 self-fashioning1829 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 130 We must not forget that Art belongs to Nature; that it is, so to speak, self-viewing, self-imitating, self-fashioning Nature. 1858 J. E. Reade Light of Other Days II. xv. 166 She possessed that self-fashioning will that made and trod its own path. 1913 F. H. Hedge tr. J. G. Fichte in K. Francke & W. G. Howard German Classics 19th & 20th Cent. V. 65 Here it [sc. life] streams, as self-creating, self-fashioning matter, through my veins and muscles. 1967 D. Bakan On Method (1969) xii. 129 If you allow that man is a self-fashioning being, then psychoanalysis comes in to deal with man in articulation with his self-fashioning potentiality. 2005 Guardian (Nexis) 25 May 24 The individual is now a self-fashioning creature, whose supreme achievement is to treat himself as a work of art. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1832adj.1829 |
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