单词	metanarrative
释义	metanarrative /ˈmɛtənarətɪv / noun 1A narrative account that experiments with or explores the idea of storytelling, often by drawing attention to its own artificiality: Don Quixote is a work of fiction but also a metanarrative... In the wider postmodern literature, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, the term metanarrative continues to be extensively employed. On a metanarrative level, Ken Kesey himself confronted his personal Western heritage by the writing of Last Go Round. These writers reject the metanarrative form, gravitating more toward densely sketched texts. 2An overarching account or interpretation of events and circumstances that provides a pattern or structure for people’s beliefs and gives meaning to their experiences: traditional religions provide stories that deliver a metanarrative about how we should live our lives... They are helping to shape a larger international utopian metanarrative of tolerance. Each minority group is turning its own history into a metanarrative. The original purpose of social and cultural history was to undermine the metanarrative of the rise of political democracy.
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