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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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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.
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.
- occurred for him when he was still in Sardis:
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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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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.
Apr 3, 2023 · In literature, metanarrative refers to the overarching story or structure that frames a narrative. For example, in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, the metanarrative is the struggle between good and evil, which influences the actions and motivations of the characters throughout the story.
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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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.
