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A Dictionary of Critical Theory (2 ed.)
... narrative ( grand récit ) Jean-François Lyotard ’s term for ideas, concepts, notions, or beliefs which can function to legitimate certain social actions and practices. For instance, the notion of revolution, since the French Revolution, has served to legitimate large-scale programmes of social change. Similarly, the notion of Enlightenment has served to legitimate a movement toward secular reason. Such grand narratives no longer function, according to Lyotard who defines the postmodern age as being characterized by incredulity towards all grand...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (4 ed.)
... narrative A term imperfectly translated from Jean-François Lyotard ’s influential account of postmodernism in La Condition postmoderne ( 1979 ), in which he condemns big bad ‘totalizing’ theories and systems of thought, principally Marxism and Hegelianism. These are ‘big stories’ ( grands récits ) which claim to explain everything, whereas the postmodern condition, by which Lyotard means the hoped-for next phase of thought, will be characterized by a rejection of such systems in favour of harmless micro-narratives ( petits récits ) that do not make any...
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A Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care (2 ed.)
... narrative Used by postmodernists as a term to attack social theories that have a big theme, such as the idea that the development of social work resulted from increasing concern on the part of the state for the welfare of its citizens, or that it was an increasingly sophisticated means of ensuring their social control....
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (3 ed.)
... narrative [Th] A broad and overarching story, totalizing in its extent, that gives order and structure to many small pieces of evidence or experiences within a broad conceptual scheme supporting knowledge with historical or contextual meanings. Such narratives, also known as metanarratives, are seen as the product of modernist thinking and have been heavily criticized by postmodernists including Jean-François Lyotard, who advocated a focus on specific local contexts and the diversity of human...
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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
... narratives ( metanarratives , master narratives ) [French grands récits ‘big stories’] Lyotard’s term for the totalizing narratives or metadiscourses of modernity which have provided ideologies with a legitimating philosophy of history. For example, the grand narratives of the Enlightenment , democracy, and Marxism . White suggests that there are four Western master narratives: Greek fatalism, Christian redemptionism, bourgeois progressivism, and Marxist utopianism. Lyotard argues that such authoritarian universalizing narratives are no longer...
The Impact of Meso-Level Assumptions on Grand Theorizing: Using Unit, State, and Regime Type for Constructing IR’s Historical Narratives (and Theory-Building) Reference library
Daniel M. Green
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory
...the anarchy assumption ( Donnelly, 2015 ; Gunitsky, 2013 ; Lake, 2009 ; Mattern & Zarakol, 2016 ). 2 Narratives of history are important. The epigraphs quoted at the beginning of this article assure us that periodization and grand historical narratives are vitally consequential, establishing the very parameters in which IR scholars labor, speculate, and theorize. Therefore, we should be highly attentive to how we produce these narratives. Yet there is a surprising lack of reflection on general practices in such matters. One common method that...
Painting Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...to paint a narrative of The Progress of Human Culture on the walls of the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts in the Strand. He planned to turn this huge series, which he had agreed to execute for free, into a commercial loss-leader, which would be financially redeemed after its completion by a one-man exhibition of the finished paintings, and by the sale of engravings after them. The exhibition opened in April 1783 , followed by a second a year later, and was accompanied by a catalogue dramatizing Barry's noble conception, grand style, and unusual...
1 & 2 Samuel Reference library
Gwilym H. Jones, Gwilym H. Jones, and Gwilym H. Jones
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...(1984), 1 & 2 Samuel, Old Testament Guides (Sheffield: JSOT). ———(1986), 1 & 11 Samuel: A Commentary , Library of Biblical Interpretation (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan). Grønbaek, J. H. (1971), Die Geschichte vom Aufstieg Davids (1 Sam 15–2 Sam 5): Tradition und Komposition , ATDan 10 (Copenhagen: Munksgaard). Gunn, D. M. (1976), ‘Traditional Composition in the “Succession Narrative”’, VT 26: 214–19. ———‘Narrative Patterns and Oral Tradition in Judges and Samuel’, VT 24: 286–317. ———(1978), The Story of King David: Genre and Interpretation , JSOTSup 6...
Exploration Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...Round the World , deriving from his participation in Cook's second voyage. Forster's anthropologically sophisticated exposition is of particular interest for its reading of Pacific societies in terms of European political debates, and for an uneasy synthesis of two grand, temporal narratives. On the one hand, there is something like the evolutionary time usually taken to be characteristic of nineteenth-century Darwinism. Not only does Forster imagine savage and barbaric societies in terms of stages, but he likens their progression from animality through...
Acts Reference library
Loveday Alexander and Loveday Alexander
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...the growth in popularity of a less pretentious narrative genre, the Greek novel, and it has been suggested that Acts is a form of novel. Certainly many readers unaccustomed to biblical narrative might take the book as a novel, with its exotic settings, adventurous plot, framework of travel, and explicit religious ideology. Luke shows some inclination to novelistic narrative techniques in the elaboration of his more dramatic scenes (cf. e.g. acts 12:6–11 ), and the novel throws valuable light on Luke's narrative structure and textures. But there are also many...
Ruth Reference library
Grace I. Emmerson and Grace I. Emmerson
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...the narrative is open to question. It is, however, arguable on literary grounds that the names of the genealogy form a counterpart to the tragic names of ch. 1 . From a tale of death and bereavement they point to a glorious future. In the canonical context their importance lies in giving the story a wider significance than the purely domestic, and in introducing the promise of hope after the despair with which the book of Judges ends. References Campbell, E. F. (1975) Ruth (New York: Doubleday). Hubbard Jr., R. L. (1988), The Book of Ruth , NICOT (Grand...
Jeremiah Reference library
Kathleen M. O'Connor and Kathleen M. O'Connor
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...message. Baruch's reward is not grand but it is precious. He will survive. He will gain his life ‘as a prize of war’, wherever he goes ( v. 5 ). With this lament and response, the main part of the book closes on a sombre note. Baruch is the world-weary survivor who is promised only his life, not escape, not return, not restoration of fortunes. Only life, endurance through difficulties, that is the prize in the midst of exhaustion from the disaster that will come ‘upon all flesh’ ( v. 5 ). The Baruch narratives end with a most chastened hope that leaves...
Epilogue Reference library
John Rogerson
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...understood in a temporal or a structural sense. Understood as a temporal term, ‘postmodern’ denotes a period of time that has succeeded the ‘modern’ period. Understood structurally, ‘postmodern’ denotes features of thought that are not necessarily new, such as a distrust of grand narratives, but which are in conflict with what are often, perhaps unfairly, regarded as legacies of the Enlightenment. My own view is that it is more accurate to say with Anthony Giddens, in his Modernity and Self-Identity , that we are living in late modernity, and that the...
1700 to the Present Reference library
Ronald Clements
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...of preaching, echoes of which are still recognizable in the form of the gospel narratives. The second path followed up suggestions set out a century earlier, arguing that many of the sayings of Jesus, especially in the presumed ‘teaching source’ that lies behind the gospels of St Matthew and St Luke, showed evidence of their translation from an Aramaic, or Hebrew, original. The third path was directed towards a revised study of the overlaps and interrelationships of the narrative contents of the first three gospels, thereby carrying into new areas problems...
Luke Reference library
Eric Franklin and Eric Franklin
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...disciplines. Others (‘many’ may be for stylistic effect) have written ‘narratives’, that is purposefully ordered accounts, and Luke joins his own to theirs, not without a hint that he is offering an improvement. The subject of these narratives is ‘the events that have been fulfilled among us’. They are not disinterested accounts but their contents are viewed as the outcome of God's purposes and, probably, as the fulfilment of earlier expectations. The sources for these narratives were ‘eyewitnesses and servants of the word’, most probably a single group...
Introduction to the Old Testament Reference library
John Barton
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...material, much wider than the contents of the NT, embracing every aspect of the social and political life of ancient Israel and post-exilic Judaism. The variety can be suggested by looking briefly at some of the genres of literature to be found there. 2. Narrative. More than half the OT consists of narrative, that is, the consecutive description of events set in the past. It is hard to distinguish between what we might call history, legend, saga, myth, folktale, or fiction. There are passages in the books of Kings which seem to be excerpts from official...
The New Testament Reference library
Margaret Davies
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Bible
...there are short expressions of poetry and proverbs within New Testament books. Once we begin to notice these features, we realize that the present form of our New Testament is neither arbitrary nor entirely accidental. Moreover, the whole Bible has been read as a grand all- encompassing narrative, a divine comedy, according to which human beings are created by the generous God to live in a beneficent world, but human ‘hardness of heart’, expressed in neglect of this creator, violence towards others, and greed, led to their alienation from God, each other, and...
The Comedy of Errors Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...was played by the players’ during the Christmas revels at Gray’s Inn on 28 December 1594 : this can only have been Shakespeare’s play, which is indeed based on Plautus ’ comedy Menaechmi , and it is unlikely that the lawyers and students would have hired actors to appear at a grand festive occasion with anything but a new, or at least current, play. Although this debt to classical farce has inclined some scholars to see the play as apprentice work from the very start of Shakespeare’s career, stylistic tests confirm a dating around 1594 , with rare...
Timon of Athens Reference library
Michael Dobson, Will Sharpe, and Anthony Davies
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare (2 ed.)
...by another adaptation in 1771 , by Richard Cumberland , who deprived Timon of his rival girlfriends (times had changed) and instead provided a virtuous daughter Evanthe, whose amorous complications with Alcibiades and Lucius fill out the plot. Spranger Barry played Timon in a grand Drury Lane production staged by Garrick , but it lasted for only eleven performances. A subsequent reworking of Shadwell’s adaptation by Thomas Hull ( 1786 ) achieved only one. In 1816 George Lamb attempted to restore Shakespeare’s text, though he left some of Cumberland’s...
