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What is a metanarrative?

What is a metanarrative? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (critical theory) A narrative about narratives of historical meaning, experience or knowledge; a grand story that is self-legitimizing.
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His text's highly metanarrative quality illustrates his process of understanding.
Her autobiography opens with an epigraph by Virginia Woolf that firmly sets this metanarrative within a matriarchal tradition of storytelling.
She asked me if I knew of any good examples of metanarrative in comics or graphic novels.
On a metanarrative level, Ken Kesey himself confronted his personal Western heritage by the writing of Last Go Round.
They are helping to shape a larger international utopian metanarrative of tolerance.
Charles stubbornly resists any metanarrative based on a wishful need to infuse a random and absurd universe with meaning.

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