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metanarrative en · ADJ

Etymology

From meta- (“transcending; of a level above”) + narrative (“recitation of a story”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to a metanarrative.

Forms

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Deriveds

metanarratively

Relateds

metafiction

metanarrative en · NOUN

Etymology

From meta- (“transcending; of a level above”) + narrative (“recitation of a story”).

Meanings

  1. A narrative which concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge and offers legitimation of such through the anticipated completion of some master idea; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.
    • That is not to say that Snakewalk departs from the metanarrative of blindness completely, or even substantially, but rather that it contains much detail that is evidently informed by experiential knowledge. 2014, David Bolt, The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing, University of Michigan Press, page 130:
    • The narratives are important in themselves as significant pieces of the metanarrative of suspicion in which activist politics have been embedded since the McCarthy era (with roots much earlier). 2004, Sandra Baringer, The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 18:
    • Even the richest metanarratives of finitude cannot ultimately explain themselves, for they have no way to synoptically do so: a larger metanarrative, one rooted in the metaphysical, is required. 2009, William E. Marsh, Nothingness, Metanarrative, and Possibility, AuthorHouse, page 199:

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Synonyms

grand narrative (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)

Translations (17)

es grandes narrativas (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · vi đại tự sự (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · es grandes relatos (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · fr métarécit (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · vi siêu tự sự (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · ca metanarrativa (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · ca realitat col·lectiva (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · ca consciència popular (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · de metanarrativ (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · es metanarrativa (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · es macrorrelato (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · pt metanarrativa (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · it metanarrazione (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · es metarrelato (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · de meistererzählung (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · cmn 宏大敘事 /宏大叙事 (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge) · fr grand récit (narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge)