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Metanarrative

In social theory, a metanarrative (also master narrative, or meta-narrative and grand narrative; French: métarécit or grand récit) is an overarching narrative about smaller historical narratives, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea. The term was popularized by the writing of French…

Lyotard's thesis, Overview & Etymology

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Etymology

Lyotard's thesis

In narratology and communication

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Metanarrative

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Avg. degree1.96
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related to Lyotard's proposal · 10
Metanarrative → Borrowing, Fragmentation, Knowledge, Lyotard, Lyotard's, Skepticism, The, Universal Truths, Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein's
related to Etymology · 9
Metanarrative → Although, Emancipation, Enlightenment, Greek, Jean-François Lyotard, Marxism, Meta, Progress, The
related to Lyotard's thesis · 6
Metanarrative → In The Postmodern Condition, Knowledge, Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Report, They
related to External links · 5
Metanarrative → Language Games, Media, Metanarratives, Wikimedia CommonsA Postmodern Strategy, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to In narratology and communication · 5
Metanarrative → According, In, John Stephens, Postmodern, Robyn McCallum

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Metanarrativerelated to EtymologyEmancipation0.60section
Metanarrativerelated to EtymologyMarxism0.60section
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Metanarrativerelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
Metanarrativerelated to External linksMedia0.60section
Metanarrativerelated to External linksMetanarratives0.60section

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