- 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...
- dramas,
allowing the
reader to
notice some
power in
religious faith.
Metanarrative,
including self-referentiality, is a
distinctively modernist feature...
-
thought to be "a
wrong war
fought for the
wrong reasons"; it
lacks the
metanarrative of good
versus evil that
characterises retellings of the
Second World...
- 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...
-
their metanarratives of
epistemic or
historical progress,
leaving individuals to
their own experiences. This was
sometimes criticized as a
metanarrative about...
- "Che myth",
allowing him to be
invariably crystallized in his many
metanarrative roles as a "Red
Robin Hood, Don
Quixote of communism, new Garibaldi...
- and
Casey were
planning on
hurting him and Joey.
Winger is a
framed metanarrative novel as the text is the protagonists'
story within various past events...
-
anthology can see that
there is a
metanarrative that
unifies the anthology." he
further explains that a
metanarrative works by, what has been called, "oppositional...
-
knowledge in
postmodern society as the end of 'grand narratives' or
metanarratives,
which he
considers a
quintessential feature of modernity.
Lyotard introduced...
