grand narrative
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrandandnarrative
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grand
adjective
uk/ɡrænd/us/ɡrænd/
important and large ...
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narrative
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
a story or a description of a series ...
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(Definition ofgrandandnarrativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We witness actions, confessions, and shards of a love story, but never long enough for them to coalesce into agrandnarrative.
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If there is indeed an end tograndnarrative, then all universal claims are suspect.
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There was nograndnarrativethat could underwrite the success of the modernization project.
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Few readers seem really to have adopted thegrandnarrativethe most fervent of these orientalists laid out.
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Another recurring theme is that of agrandnarrativeor abstracted approach to composition.
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Taken together as an allegory, the fresco offers agrandnarrativeof history as the progressive implementation of justice.
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Such an approach has no need for agrandnarrativesince the future is rendered problematic and the past becomes unpredictable (pp. 6-7).
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He broke thegrandnarrativeup into particular narratives, each only loosely connected, if at all, to others.
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The freedom to reject thegrandnarrativesystems of the past seems more important when the freedom to reject the technological systems seems so limited.
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Most contemporary historians explicitly reject the naive concept of progress implied in the "grandnarrative" of modern science as a timeless success story.
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One way in which thegrandnarrativeis qualified or sidelined in this book is by the author's recurrent emphasis on continuity.
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The rare case proves thegrandnarrativethat justice prevails.
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The history of the small stories neither makes, nor reconstructs agrandnarrativeof the riots.
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Thegrandnarrativeof the empire became an asset of strategic significance.
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This is a symptom that calls for a closer analysis of the mode in which the "grandnarrative" is typically cast.
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Not being postmodern, this book has no qualms about proposing agrandnarrative.
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Noh plays connected tutelary deities (ubusunagami) and other gods, worshipped in small village shrines, to thegrandnarrativeof the national chronicles.
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Debate on the changing view of narrative and the waning of the idea of agrandnarrativebrought to the surface questions of the ordering of historical time.
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In postmodern terms, when thegrandnarrativeis questioned, factors and groupings that had been invisible under the model of national unity suddenly emerge and enter the interpretive equation.
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However, the author does his best to avoid agrandnarrativeof modernization, especially one that views the eighteenth century as central- the "rise of consumer society" and all that.
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