In social theory, a metanarrative (also master narrative, or meta-narrative and grand narrative; French: métarécit or grand récit) is an overarching narrative...
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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...
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that is. Postmodernists reject metanarratives because they reject the conceptualization of truth that metanarratives presuppose. Postmodernist philosophers...
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second most popular scientific profession, after medicine. A common metanarrative of the Enlightenment is the "secularization theory". Modernity, as understood...
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"Lynching the White Woman: William Pierce's 'Day of the Rope'". The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America. Literary criticism and...
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knowledge in postmodern society as the end of 'grand narratives' or metanarratives, which he considers a quintessential feature of modernity. Lyotard introduced...
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they explicitly speak about storytelling, and are conscious of the metanarrative fact that thy are in a story. Frodo and Sam Gamgee, resting for a moment...
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philosophy, the term invagination is used to explain a special kind of metanarrative. It was first used by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French: invagination) to...
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"Che myth", allowing him to be invariably crystallized in his many metanarrative roles as a "Red Robin Hood, Don Quixote of communism, new Garibaldi...
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Matter of Britain (category Metanarratives)
The Matter of Britain (French: matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany...
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Postmodernism (category Metanarratives)
extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives...." where what he means by metanarrative (in French, grands récits) is something like a...
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Bukatman's Blade Runner and other books and academic articles. In Postmodern Metanarratives: Blade Runner and Literature in the Age of Image, Décio Torres Cruz...
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The Holocaust in textbooks (section Metanarratives)
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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Rea Tajiri (section Metanarrative)
Rea Tajiri is an American video artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter, known for her personal essay film History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (1991)...
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descendants of survivors support the new Jewish community in Hebron. In the metanarrative of Zionism, according to Michelle Campos, the event became 'a central...
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original on 2011-04-02. Retrieved 2011-03-31. Baringer, S (2004). The metanarrative of suspicion in late twentieth century America. Routledge. p. 71. ISBN 0-415-97076-8...
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Harley Lyrics (section The metanarrative)
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...
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conjunction with stories. Narrative poetry is poetry that tells a story. Metanarrative, sometimes also known as master- or grand narrative, is a higher-level...
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Genres: Dissolving Literature and Film in Blade Runner". Postmodern Metanarratives. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 30, 32. doi:10.1057/9781137439734_4...
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describing each of their histories. The fourth episode uses an experimental metanarrative in which the four lead actresses play actresses who turn against their...
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dramas, allowing the reader to notice some power in religious faith. Metanarrative, including self-referentiality, is a distinctively modernist feature...
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Dominant narrative (category Metanarratives)
society. Dominant narrative is similar in some ways to the ideas of metanarrative or grand narrative. Sociologist Judith Lorber defines and describes...
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praise assignment Revisionism versus orthodox interpretations Historical metanarratives and metahistory. How a historian approaches historical events is one...
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historicized (was conceptualized in modernist, linear and essentially metanarrative forms) has now come to an end of its productive life; the all-encompassing...
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recognized that the collection bore the imprint of an underlying message or metanarrative, but that this message remained concealed, as Augustine of Hippo said...
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Winger (novel) (section Metanarrative style)
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...
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combine traditional methods of marketing pop music, such as album-based metanarratives and massive concert tours, with contemporary tactics, such as abstaining...
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elements of both and that his reptilian hypothesis and his "postmodern metanarrative" may be allegorical, a Swiftian satire which is used to give ordinary...
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Matter of France (category Metanarratives)
The Matter of France, also known as the Carolingian cycle, is a body of literature and legendary material associated with the history of France, in particular...
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Their Work, Northcote House, (2002) Bruce Sesto, Language, History, And Metanarrative in the Fiction of Julian Barnes, Peter Lang (2001) Merritt Moseley,...
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