Dictionary

Explore meaning, context, and usage with an online dictionary experience optimized for multilingual workflows.

Clear

Try these words

languagetranslateconnectiondictionaryvoice

Meaning of metanarrative

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

metanarrative

noun

Definitions

  1. (critical theory) 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.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/metanarrative

Related words

narratologygrounded narrative inquirynarrative structurehistoriographic metafictionnarratologistmetahistorymeta-communicationpourquoi story