- 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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their metanarratives of
epistemic or
historical progress,
leaving individuals to
their own experiences. This was
sometimes criticized as a
metanarrative about...
-
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...
-
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...
- "Che myth",
allowing him to be
invariably crystallized in his many
metanarrative roles as a "Red
Robin Hood, Don
Quixote of communism, new Garibaldi...
- 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...
- "Lynching the
White Woman:
William Pierce's 'Day of the Rope'". The
Metanarrative of Su****ion in Late Twentieth-Century America.
Literary Criticism and...
-
theory critiques theories like
Marxism that
provide an
overarching metanarrative to history. Key
postmodern thinkers include Jean-François Lyotard, Michel...
- but
Benson and
Moorhead decided to cast
Pucci in the role for the
metanarrative given they
previously worked with him on
their film
Spring (2014) and...
