metanarrative
metanarrative · metanarratives
meistererzählung, metanarrativ
A narrative which concerns narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge…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.
Meaning
1 sensesA 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.
meistererzählung, metanarrativ
Translations
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By meaning 1
narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge:
Origin
From meta- (“transcending; of a level above”) + narrative (“recitation of a story”).From meta- (“transcending; of a level above”) + narrative (“recitation of a story”).
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Forms
plural: metanarrativesSynonyms
1 synonymsnarrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge:grand narrative