Essays Tagged: "Metanarrative"

Max Stirner & Postmodernism

(3 pages) 47 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Postmodernism and Joyce Carol Oates

evident in Oates story were fragmented narrative, disrupted time sequence, disunified subject, and metanarrative.The first aspect I will talk about is fragmented or nonsense narrative. To me these te ... ir internal monologue and external monologue.The next aspect of postmodernism I will discuss is the metanarrative. A metanarrative is a story in which it is conscious of being a story, and conscious o ...

(8 pages) 87 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

What is postmodernism

general inequality. Postmodernists would refer to his theory, and those of other sociologists, as a metanarrative and writers such as Lyotard (1984) have seen the rejection of such theories as central ... as central to postmodernism: "Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodernism as incredulity to metanarratives" People have lost faith in the metanarratives of the past and Lyotard sees social lif ...

(10 pages) 194 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Nietzschean Thought - The Main Concepts covered and explored Based on Interpretations by David Walsh

erence to a world whose basic ideals are no longer buttressed on the idea of an absolute truth. The metanarrative of an absolute truth, and basing all philosophical teachings on this notion was a reco ...

(10 pages) 13 0 0.0 Jan/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory