Meta-narrativeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• meta-narrative

語源

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

名詞

metanarrative (plural metanarratives)

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.
   • 2004, Sandra Baringer, The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America‎, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 18:

     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).

   • 2009, William E. Marsh, Nothingness, Metanarrative, and Possibility, AuthorHouse, page 199:

     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.

   • 2014, David Bolt, The Metanarrative of Blindness: A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing, University of Michigan Press, page 130:

     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.

同意語

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

形容詞

metanarrative (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a metanarrative.

派生語

• metanarratively

参考

• metafiction

参照

• 1984, Jean-François Lyotard, Geoffrey Bennington (translator), Brian Massumi (translator), The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Theory and History of Literature 10, University of Minnesota Press, [1979, J-F. Lyotard, La condition postmoderne: rapport sur le savoir, Les Éditions de Minuit].

Further reading

• Anti-foundationalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Metacognition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• New historicism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• World view on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jean-François Lyotard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia