Metanarrative

In the boat stealing scene, readers see the alienation and exploration of the natural world previously discussed. “I went alone into a Shepherd’s boat,” says Wordsworth, establishing his solitude before any other aspect of the experience (1.82). In this scene, Wordsworth is closest to the “blessed babe” state. For this reason, he has little windows during which he comes close to encountering the Real. “Leaving behind her [the boat] still on either side / Small circles glittering idly in the moon…

Shalom is also a Biblical concept, meaning completeness, fulfillment, and harmony, that sweeps throughout the Biblical metanarrative. In Genesis 1, God created the universe and everything in it with simply the word of His mouth. Creation was whole and complete without sin and its decay and corruption. Creation existed in shalom. In this sense, shalom represents reality as God…

Contemporary Canadian writer Alistair MacLeod features the idea of story telling centrally in his short story Vision. MacLeod draws upon passionate communication, Metafiction, and first-person address to demonstrate how the context of a story is consistently determined and re-shaped depending on the intent of the teller towards the listener. MacLeod’s Vision suggests that stories are powerful methods of communication that must continuously be told, heard, and retold to ensure that they are not…

In Dor, J, Ch.13). I will argue that The Human Stain certainly makes a case for the subjectivity of personal experience and identity and the inadequacy of various metanarratives – not least an excessively politically correct mode of race and gender discourse – for understanding or expressing personal history and identity; that these things must sometimes ‘be lost’ for self and personal integrity to be found. A further…

use of metafiction within the novel is a key aspect of postmodern literature. The concept works in conjunction with Jean-Francois Lyotard, a French postmodern philosopher. Lyotard loosely defined postmodernism as ‘incredulity towards metanarratives’. Metanarratives refer to human progresses such as history or science, and postmodern literature works to criticize these, this is apparent in ‘Enduring Love’ through McEwan’s identification that the book is merely a constructed concept. Joe’s…

A message of hope, liberation, and inspiration is what comes to mind when reading 121st division of Psalms. This particular Psalm has been a source of inspiration when inspiring worshipers to worship God. It has personal inspired me to look past my hurts, pains, sorrows and situations to toward the source of my hope, God. This particular passage of Psalms reminds me that, the true and living, God never stop caring for or watching over his children. This Psalm, much like the 23rd division of…

"cowardice, self-commiseration, and superficial comments" set him apart from the more heroic protagonists found in earlier works on racial passing (SOURCE TWO. This contrast points at that narrator's "unreliability as a narrator" and the novel's "metanarrative reflection" on the constructed nature of racial identity (Source two). Fabbi continues to suggest that Johnson's rather ironic approach to the passing narrative tradition undermines the false and general interpretations of African American…

comprehensive shift in the culture and values of the western world nearing the end of the 20th century, postmodernism revolutionised literature. Texts became a form of communication that extended past earlier two-dimensional literary conventions and metanarratives. Unprecedented holistic philosophies brought about unorthodox forms of literature through imaginative powers, stylistic ingenuity and linguistic playfulness. Texts encouraged responders to challenge accustomed notions and beliefs not…

What we can take from the story is to see how God is directing the lives and events for the restoration of mankind, through the call of Abraham and the Mosaic covenant for the redemption of his people to the individual stories that support the metanarrative as a whole. What we don’t see is how the historical events can provide…

“Conversation on the Egyptian Revolution: Fieldwork in Revolutionary Times” is one article, in a series, that was written a year after the 2011 January 25 Revolution in Egypt. In this article, author Yasmin Moll reflects and explores some conflicting thoughts that went through her mind as she participated in the event as both an Egyptian woman and as an anthropologist. She realized that the January 25 Revolution was a historic event for her country. Moll and many others during the uprising…