- In
social theory, a
metanarrative (also
master narrative, or meta-narrative and
grand narrative; French: métarécit or
grand récit) is an
overarching narrative...
- that is.
Postmodernists reject metanarratives because they
reject the
conceptualization of
truth that
metanarratives presuppose.
Postmodernist philosophers...
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thought to be "a
wrong war
fought for the
wrong reasons"; it
lacks the
metanarrative of good
versus evil that
characterizes retellings of the
Second World...
-
second most po****r
scientific profession,
after medicine. A
common metanarrative of the
Enlightenment is the "secularization theory". Modernity, as understood...
- "Lynching the
White Woman:
William Pierce's 'Day of the Rope'". The
Metanarrative of Su****ion in Late Twentieth-Century America.
Literary criticism and...
- philosophy, the term in****tion is used to
explain a
special kind of
metanarrative. It was
first used by
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French: in****tion) to...
- they
explicitly speak about storytelling, and are
conscious of the
metanarrative fact that they are in a story.
Frodo and Sam Gamgee,
resting for a moment...
-
knowledge in
postmodern society as the end of 'grand narratives' or
metanarratives,
which he
considers a
quintessential feature of modernity.
Lyotard introduced...
- The
Holocaust is
conceptualized and
narrated in
textbooks worldwide in a
variety of
approaches to
treating temporal and
spatial scales, protagonists, interpretative...
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their metanarratives of
epistemic or
historical progress,
leaving individuals to
their own experiences. This was
sometimes criticized as a
metanarrative about...
