master narrative
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmasterandnarrative
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master
noun[C]
uk/ˈmɑː.stər/us/ˈmæs.tɚ/
the person who owns, cares for, and controls ...
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narrative
adjective
uk/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
telling a story or describing a series ...
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(Definition ofmasterandnarrativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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And in turn, the disclosure and repetition of thismasternarrativesystematically expunges from the novel the mysteries productive of both gossip and readerly interest.
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Moreover, themasternarrativeas well as the counter-narratives represented a particular set of core values, often expressed in a geographic orientation or ideological loyalty.
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There were several women whose pregnancy experience, or at least their narrative about their pregnancy, followed the outline of themasternarrativeabout pregnancy.
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The dominant belief systems surrounding pregnancy contribute to the creation of amasternarrativeabout pregnancy.
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It gave the subject coherence and amasternarrative, albeit one subject to debate and revision.
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Research into this wider context has questioned the oldmasternarrativein a number of significant ways.
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And literature too ends up taking its place-i. e. a limited place-in the attempt to provide a stabilizingmasternarrative.
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In terms of the modernmasternarrative, any accent on rural, local or regional values suggests conservative defence; the alternative is bound up with self-recommending 'emancipation'.
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Now the thing about historical documents is how many there are that historians just don't look at, because that's not where themasternarrativehas tended to be written from.
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The modern perspective entailed amasternarrativethat enabled us to trace the troubling departures of the interwar period to backwardness or wayward divergence from putatively normal modern development.
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In this sense, the regime's founding principles andmasternarrativeturned into a discursive field on which the meanings of state, nation, and citizen were being constantly redefined and contested.
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Jones's contribution is perhaps the chapter that makes the most concerted attempt to use empirical data to address the key concepts ofmasternarrativeand counter-narrative.
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Yosef spends much of the first chapter laying out thismasternarrativetheory, and in many ways this chapter represents both the strength and the weakness of the book.
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The central tenet of thismasternarrativewas (and is) democratization.
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A final section of the book relates to the use of wider explanations - ' master narratives ' and contexts of religious change.
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In contrast, by not seeing - or by failing to recognise - the significatory power of details, the police replace them with generic, inherited, and inadequate master narratives.
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Forgetting, or colluding in the elision of alternative histories in favour of the creation of conformist master narratives, is fundamentally opposed to the core of justice.
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These were fleeting remarks and observations but, as we have already noticed, they covered subjects that were often erased in the master narratives of the fourteenth-century grand histories.
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