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- Whereas narrative represents the story as it is manipulated by the discourse, metanarrative speaks about the narrative and exists as a func-tion of the discourse.
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Oct 29, 2024 · A meta-narrative review seeks to illuminate a heterogeneous topic area by highlighting the contrasting and complementary ways in which researchers have studied the same or a similar topic" (Wong et al, 2013).
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code of celebration, here advertising the narratability of all the “events of men” [ ] treated in the Histories, be they histori- τα γενμενα ε ανθρωπων cal or ethnographic. A more specific summary is provided by the final colon of ambiguous grammatical status, where anticipatory in αλλς τα τε [both the other things and also] serves as a bridge betw...
As my preceding analysis of the first sentence of Herodotus’ Histories shows, an introductory or concluding statement is a gloss for the way in which it summarizes the narrative, but at the same time, it may also contain a number of other glosses. There are two major categories of glosses, self-referential and referential. A self-referential gloss ...
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Metanarrative may be related and is often used interchangeably with metafiction but there is a distinction. The latter foregrounds or discloses the fictionality of a narrative while metanarrative does not undercut fiction. [8]
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.
Chapter 1. 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.
Meta and narrative are both literary devices that play with the structure and form of a story. While narrative refers to the actual story being told, meta refers to a story within a story or a self-referential element that comments on the storytelling process itself.
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The prefix meta means "beyond" and is here used to mean "about," and a narrative is a story. Therefore, a metanarrative is a story about a story, encompassing and explaining other 'little stories' within totalizing a schema.
