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Narrative and Metanarrative. The aim of this chapter is to identify different levels of narrative in Herodotus’ text. I first define narrative in the strict sense, as opposed to metanarrative, and then distinguish self-referential from referential meta-narrative.
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metanarrative dialogue between modernity and postmodernity lies both peril and promise in considering its role in meaning production and leadership effectiveness. We turn now to a brief consideration of both.
In social theory, a metanarrative (also master narrative, or meta-narrative and grand narrative; French: métarécit or grand récit) is an overarching narrative about smaller historical narratives, which offers a society legitimation through the anticipated completion of a (as yet unrealized) master idea.
emerges a metanarrative, a body of discourse which presents a simplified form of the ideology and which is the vehicle of communication between the regime and those who live under it; it is the principal form of cultural mediation between regime and people. The focus of the metanarrative is
Lyotardian metanarrative. Human societies are usually seen in a context of a larger narrative to which each of our lives in an element. The metanarrative serves as an umbrella for smaller narratives in which other epistemic and moral narratives find their place.
Although they are related and often used interchangeably, the terms should be distinguished: metanarration refers to the narrator’s reflections on the act or process of narration; metafiction concerns comments on the fictionality and/or constructedness of the narrative.
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While metafictional autofiction focuses on issues of fiction-ality in narrating lives, metanarrative autofiction, as I define it, relects on the role of narratives (both fictional and nonfictional) in the processes in which we make sense of our lives.
