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...

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...

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

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...