Essays Tagged: "Metanarrative"
Max Stirner & Postmodernism
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory