Metanarratives ignore the heterogeneity or variety of human existence. Second, metanarratives are created and reinforced by power structures and are therefore not to be trusted. First, attempts to construct grand theories tend to dismiss the naturally existing chaos and disorder of the universe. Lyotard and many other poststructuralist thinkers view this as a positive development for a number of reasons. In this text, Lyotard refers to what he describes as the postmodern condition, which he characterized as increasing skepticism toward the totalizing nature of metanarratives and their reliance on some form of "transcendent and universal truth": The concept of metanarrative was introduced and criticized by Jean-François Lyotard in his work, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979). Poststructuralist skepticism toward metanarratives This is what Lyotard was referring to when he made the claim that the postmodern condition is one of incredulity toward metanarratives. The problem is that once a proof is accepted as the standard of believability not only must we prove our claims, we must also prove our proofs, and so on, ad infinitum. Modernists and philosophers address the problem by telling a story-the story of progress through universal human reason, as Logos triumphs over Mythos. There is only one metanarrative as defined by Lyotard. 4 Is poststructuralism a metanarrative?.3 Replacing grand, universal narratives with small, local narratives.
2 Poststructuralist skepticism toward metanarratives.The Consortium for Strategic Communication also maintains a website on master narratives. In communication and strategic communication, a master narrative (or metanarrative) is a "transhistorical narrative that is deeply embedded in a particular culture." A master narrative is therefore a particular type of narrative, which is defined as a "coherent system of interrelated and sequentially organized stories that share a common rhetorical desire to resolve a conflict by establishing audience expectations according to the known trajectories of its literary and rhetorical form."
Metanarratives are not usually told outright, but are reinforced by other more specific narratives told within the culture. Examples of these stories are nationalisms, religion, and science, to name a few. In postmodern philosophy, a metanarrative is an untold story that unifies and totalizes the world, and justifies a culture's power structures. Therefore, a metanarrative is a story about a story, encompassing and explaining other "little stories" within conceptual models that make the stories into a whole. The prefix meta- means "beyond" and is here used to mean "about", and narrative is a story constructed in a sequential fashion. According to John Stephens, it "is a global or totalizing cultural narrative schema which orders and explains knowledge and experience". Tagged since May 2011.Ī metanarrative (from meta grand narrative), in critical theory, and particularly in postmodernism, is an abstract idea that is thought to be a comprehensive explanation of historical experience or knowledge. Please help make it understandable to non-experts. It may be too technical for most readers to understand.It may be confusing or unclear to readers.It needs additional citations for verification.
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