metanarrative

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — 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).
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to a metanarrative. not-comparable

词形变化

metanarratives plural meta-narrative alternative meta-narrative alternative

词源

词源 1
From meta- (“transcending; of a level above”) + narrative (“recitation of a story”).
词源 2
From meta- (“transcending; of a level above”) + narrative (“recitation of a story”).
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