In social theory, a metanarrative (also master narrative, or meta-narrative and grand narrative; French: métarécit or grand récit) is an overarching narrative...

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...

that is. Postmodernists reject metanarratives because they reject the conceptualization of truth that metanarratives presuppose. Postmodernist philosophers...

second most popular 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 Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America. Literary criticism and...

knowledge in postmodern society as the end of 'grand narratives' or metanarratives, which he considers a quintessential feature of modernity. Lyotard introduced...

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...

philosophy, the term invagination is used to explain a special kind of metanarrative. It was first used by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French: invagination) to...

"Che myth", allowing him to be invariably crystallized in his many metanarrative roles as a "Red Robin Hood, Don Quixote of communism, new Garibaldi...

The Matter of Britain (French: matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany...

extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives...."  where what he means by metanarrative (in French, grands récits) is something like a...

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...

The Holocaust is conceptualized and narrated in textbooks worldwide in a variety of approaches to treating temporal and spatial scales, protagonists, interpretative...

Rea Tajiri is an American video artist, filmmaker, and screenwriter, known for her personal essay film History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige (1991)...

descendants of survivors support the new Jewish community in Hebron. In the metanarrative of Zionism, according to Michelle Campos, the event became 'a central...

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...

conjunction with stories. Narrative poetry is poetry that tells a story. Metanarrative, sometimes also known as master- or grand narrative, is a higher-level...

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...

Genres: Dissolving Literature and Film in Blade Runner". Postmodern Metanarratives. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 30, 32. doi:10.1057/9781137439734_4...

describing each of their histories. The fourth episode uses an experimental metanarrative in which the four lead actresses play actresses who turn against their...

dramas, allowing the reader to notice some power in religious faith. Metanarrative, including self-referentiality, is a distinctively modernist feature...

society. Dominant narrative is similar in some ways to the ideas of metanarrative or grand narrative. Sociologist Judith Lorber defines and describes...

praise assignment Revisionism versus orthodox interpretations Historical metanarratives and metahistory. How a historian approaches historical events is one...

historicized (was conceptualized in modernist, linear and essentially metanarrative forms) has now come to an end of its productive life; the all-encompassing...

recognized that the collection bore the imprint of an underlying message or metanarrative, but that this message remained concealed, as Augustine of Hippo said...

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...

combine traditional methods of marketing pop music, such as album-based metanarratives and massive concert tours, with contemporary tactics, such as abstaining...

elements of both and that his reptilian hypothesis and his "postmodern metanarrative" may be allegorical, a Swiftian satire which is used to give ordinary...

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...

Their Work, Northcote House, (2002) Bruce Sesto, Language, History, And Metanarrative in the Fiction of Julian Barnes, Peter Lang (2001) Merritt Moseley,...