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- by and +5
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- Autism, Disability Studies, Chronic Pain, Diabetes

The paper proposes that the metanarrative of Scripture is God taking a bride. The story begins in Genesis when God creates the world as the home from which he will call forth his bride. The story follows the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants and continues through the New Covenant to Revelation when the marriage is consummated. The church is not merely instrumental in God's plan but teleological. The Big Story of Scripture is God winning the love of his bride and transforming her into a queen fit to rule by his side.

- by Susan Cyre
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- Theology, Marriage, Metanarrative, Christian Studies

In 2018, Efi Birba offered the Greek public a different theatrical version of the famous Cervantes’ novel, Don Quixote. Exclusively profiting the storytelling dynamic of the body, she used playing as the main tool of the literary interpretation and meaningfulness. Her directorial choices removed her from the concept of theatrical adaptation and introduced her into the field of metanarration. In this article, I explore the dramaturgical rhetoric of the performance and the narrative devices being used in. Highlighting the concept of ‘play’ as the main technique, I point out the performative flow as a non-verbal field where the body may not just represent or tell a story, but actually be that story and shift it from one level to another. Questions about corporeal awareness, timing and spatiality are raised, as well as questions about the metanarrative potential of a corporeal performance to translate literary meanings and deepen into allegorical insights and symbolisms.

- by Olga Kakosimou
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- Literature, Play, Physical Theatre, Performance

Recent cultural criticism tools such as the concept of metanarrative or of deconstruction seem to find their forerunner in Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick. Specific references in the text imply that the idea of completeness seemed both an impossible and an undesirable task. Thus, the American author appears to be an adept of a philosophy of shipwreck, both in terms of criticizing Protestant theology and in terms of dismantling linear narrative. Instead of monotheism, he seems to favour cultural relativism and develops a loose narrative structure. Midway through the novel, a hermeneutic reading of the whiteness of the whale is provided; as a consequence of this fact, epistemology and ethics break down. Anthropology is yet another lens through which the novel can be read, as the narrator Ishmael seems to promote the values of religious tolerance and respect for cultural difference, themes Melville had been exploring since his first published novel, Typee.

- by Nicolae Andrei Popa
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- American Literature, Religion, Anthropology, Atheism

This article deals with the metafictional character of the works of Chinese avant-garde writer Ma Yuan. It describes the background of Ma Yuan's writings and the shift of the focus from the background to other narrative elements that can be described as metafictional or metanarrative. The first part of the article introduces the basic theoretical definitions of meta-elements in fiction and applies them on specific cases in the works of the author. In the second part, the overall context of the literary-political status quo at the end of the 1970s and the beginning of 1980s in China is outlined and then the article deals with the potential subversive effect of the meta-elements in Ma Yuan's fiction within the literary discourse. The article reaches the conclusion that it is the disruption of literary codes and the transfer of creative power from the author to the reader that constitutes the essence of the subversion of Ma Yuan's works.

- by Frantisek Reismuller
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- China, Metafiction, Chinese literature, Literary Discourse

Although the three classic postcolonial novels-Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958), The Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf (1913), and A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (1924)-were composed in three totally unrelated settings and without a predetermined timeframe, they efficiently contribute to a transcontinental and transcultural mural that powerfully relates a coherent and consummate metanarrative of colonial justice with its three main junctures identified as the establishment, the operation, and the withdrawal as part of an oppressive administrative system maintained totally to the advantage of the colonizer and at the expense of the native. The trilogy fortuitously composed of the three novels reveals various strategies the colonizers used in the respective settings for the establishment and maintenance of their power by means of an alien institution of justice biased to English common law which was totally operated in English, capitalizing on the natives' ignorance of the language and culture, law and order, custom and etiquette, and methods and practices it is associated with, and their failure to hold on at the point the natives became conscious of their true behaviour, challenged their hypocrisy, and resisted their dominance. While appreciating the authenticity of the narratives in the three novels in the context of their function as political critiques, this paper attempts to analyse the texts from a postcolonial perspective, compare the circumstances under which the heroes continue their respective struggles for existence, assess the literary and aesthetic potential the authors have demonstrated while articulating their political consciousness, interpret them from an historical point of view, and appreciate the impact they make on the political awareness of their worldwide readership.

- by EA Gamini Fonseka and +1
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- Colonialism, British Empire, Colonial Administration, Metanarrative
- by Tom Steffen
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- Evangelism, Noise, Clarity, Metanarrative

This paper understands the basic elements of neoliberalism in education and governmentality to be the technologies for the neoliberal government of education. It outlines Foucault’s methodology for analysing governmentality and shows how neoliberalism is a discursive formation which homogenises apparently unrelated language games and discourses. It places particular emphasis on the rhizomatic dispersion of neoliberal discursive and non-discursive practices, which in the end create a mosaic of thinking and acting with its own existing internal logic. This paper provides a cross-sectional perspective on how neoliberalism has implanted itself as a universal phenomenon along the horizontal and vertical lines of the education sphere and shows how, particularly through the policy of lifelong learning for a knowledge society, it is transforming first of all the education of adults and how subsequently it has become a fundamental blueprint for the complex revision of higher education and regional schooling, including pre-school education. This paper prefaces this single-issue edition of the Journal of Pedagogy and therefore presents and summarises the articles published in this issue, and suggests how they are thematic examples of a single and more general theoretical framework.

- by Ondrej Kaščák
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- Globalization, Lifelong Learning, Governmentality, Early Childhood Education

Beginning with a critical reappraisal of the notion of “fairy tale” and extending it to include categories and genres which are in common usage in folklore and in literary studies, this book throws light on the general processes involved in storytelling. It illuminates the fundamental ways in which a culture is formed, while highlighting important features of the Irish narrative tradition, in all its wealth and variety and in its connections with the mythical and historical events of Ireland. The Irish Fairy Tale argues that the fairy tale is a kind of “neutral zone,” a place of transition as well as a meeting place for popular beliefs and individual creativity, oral tradition and literary works, historical sources and imaginary reconstructions, and for contrasting and converging views of the world, which altogether allow for a deeper and more sophisticated understanding of reality. The book focuses on stories by Yeats and Stephens, whose approach to the subject marks the culmination of a long tradition of attempts at linking past and present and of bridging the gap between what appear to be contradictory facets of a single culture. This leads to a comparative study of Joyce’s Dubliners, which illustrates the universal and exemplary nature of the notion of fairy tale put forward in the work.

- by Vito Carrassi
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- Irish Studies, Folklore, Irish Literature, William Butler Yeats
- by Fátima Chinita
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- Film Analysis, Self-Reference, Reflexivity, Reflection, Cinema, David Lynch

This paper seeks to offer a unitary vision of Flann O’Brien’s novels
through a comparative reading with the immram, a genre from the
Irish literary tradition with which O’Brien’s work bears numerous
meaningful affinities and analogies. Particular attention is devoted to
the Immram curaig Máele Dúin, whose fundamental characteristics
we find, in variable measure and manner, in O’Brien’s novels. The
intolerance of linearity of plot, the digressive spirit and progression
of the narration, the taste for literary artifice and meta-literary play,
the centrality of the theme of guilt and above all the complete fluidity
of time-space confines which are violated and continually re-defined
are essential elements of O’Brien’s narrative which can be recognized,
albeit in nuce, in the immram.
Keywords: conceptions of time and space, Flann O’Brien, immram,
metaliterature, narrative strategies

- by Vito Carrassi
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- Irish Studies, Irish Literature, Orality-Literacy Studies, Narratology
- by yehudith auerbach
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- Peace and Conflict Studies, Narrative, Reconciliation, Metanarrative
- by Vito Carrassi
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- Irish Literature, Literature, Narrative, Irish History

The aim of this essay is to explore the relationship between the word and the fictional concealment in the narrative work of one of the most original – but, strangely, least known – Italian authors of the 20th century, Tommaso Landolfi. This analysis examines a single work by Landolfi, the long story Ottavio di Saint-Vincent, which seems to have a particular relationship with the whole narrative production of this author because of its concern with metanarrative. The story of the poor poet Ottavio of Saint Vincent, who pretends to be a fictional duke conforming to the duchess’ wishes, surfaces more than once as a metaphor for literary creation itself.

- by alice gardoncini
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- Metanarrative, Tommaso Landolfi, Ottavio di Saint-Vincent
- by Marta Materni
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- Modernism (Literature), Metafiction, Luigi Pirandello, Metanarratives

Augustine of Hippo prescribed authoritative hermeneutic rules and techniques designed to accomplish the twin tasks of understanding the Bible oneself and then teaching others orthodox Christian doctrine. In doing so, Augustine also re-invented the Bible story, giving it a meta-narrative construction that differed markedly from the Hebrew hermeneutic adopted by Paul and the apostles. Augustine's meta-narrative enabled the early church to understand itself as the foundation for Christians as the "third race" of the ancient world. There is good reason to believe that Augustine's cosmology has outlived its usefulness.
The apostles Paul and Peter looked forward eagerly to the imminent end of the Mosaic Age, in their own generation, not at the end of human history. The doctrine of creatio ex nihilo and a futurist millenarian eschatology framed Augustine’s contribution to Christian cosmology.
Augustine’s Hellenic biblical hermeneutic drew upon the universalistic and cosmopolitan spirit of Greco-Roman culture which was far removed from the particularistic ethnoreligion of Old Covenant Israel. The thesis of this article is that a Hebraic biblical hermeneutic could help to develop a biblical metanarrative that is both true and more useful to contemporary WASPs than Augustine’s rendition of the bible story.
As I argued in the discussion on “Anglo-Republicanism and the Rebirth of British History,” WASPs desperately need a neo-Angelcynn ethnotheology which can help us, like Alfred the Great, to find a biblical warrant for the reconstruction of our own holy Christian nation.
Any such ethnotheology will run contrary to both Church Tradition and the more recent work of Radical Orthodox theologians such as John Milbank. I would very much like to hear what orthodox Christians and others make of the thesis outlined in this paper. If posting this piece here sparks any interest, I will put its companion piece, “Global Jesus versus National Jesus: The Political Hermeneutics” once the time for the present discussion expires.

- by Andrew Fraser
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- Radical Orthodoxy (Theology), Hannah Arendt, John Milbank, Metanarrative

Despite Lyotard’s proclaimed end of metanarratives in a post-modern predicament, metanarratives appear to be making a comeback. This is the case for antinatalism, a relatively recent ideological formation or moral philosophical perspective that has spawned a new
social movement with an active presence in social media. The organizational and structural aspects of NSMs render them amenable to being labeled as ‘post-modern’. In this context, the emergence of ideologies as moral philosophies, such as antinatalism, loom like an outsider, or like a retro fissure in a plastic canvass. The reason is that antinatalism shares the holistic, fundamentalist and totalizing discursive traits of modernist metanarratives that were heralded by Lyotard (1984) as being outmoded in a post-modern condition. Yet, this metanarrative is
also different in fundamental aspects from traditional metanarratives. These aspects pertain to its rhetorical self-reflexivity and to its pre-occupation with rooting the propounded arguments
in empirical particulars, rather than in a metaphysical or transcendentalist realm. This new form of metanarrative I call metametanarrative as it constitutes a philosophical regression, so
to speak, in a pre post-modernist cultural milieu.

- by george rossolatos
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- Postmodernism, Metanarrative

Partindo da explicação daquilo que neste ensaio se entende por “metacinema” e a sua relevância como discurso autoral sobre a sétima arte, aborda-se o fenómeno do visionamento múltiplo de uma mesma obra (aspeto conhecido em inglês como “repeat viewing”). Este fenómeno permite um contato privilegiado entre o meta espetador, propenso a aderir em maior grau aos metafilmes, e o meta realizador, inclinado a construir uma carreira em torno da execução dos mesmos. Em causa está o visionamento e o fabrico de obras, direta ou indiretamente, especializadas no universo cinematográfico.
A mediação do dispositivo cinematográfico na projeção em sala ou a apropriação de novas e cada vez mais versáteis tecnologias de captação e reprodução audiovisual permite transformar o vidente cinéfilo num utilizador compulsivo, conferindo ao cinema atualmente uma dimensão háptica que ele não detinha da mesma forma anteriormente. O espetador apropria-se de obras criadas por outrem, atribuindo-lhes uma nova forma e um novo sentido, mas dentro de um contexto cinéfilo. Inversamente, o criador é voluntariamente apropriado pela indústria, permitindo o consumo de si mesmo nas edições em videograma e trabalhando internamente as obras e os seus mecanismos formais e narrativos para geraram maior e mais multiplicadas formas de consumo junto dos espetadores. Assim se fomenta uma jornada que não é do herói, mas sim do vidente.
Para concluir, defende-se que a maior acessibilidade fílmica permitida pela disseminação de novas janelas de consumo cinematográfico incrementa o "repeat viewing" e uma apropriação cada vez maior das obras, mas em contrapartida, pode desencadear a nulidade do discurso metacinematográfico e o esboroar do metacinema como tal.

- by Fátima Chinita
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- Film Studies, Film Analysis, Film and Media Studies, Metacinema

Para David Bordwell, o cinema clássico caracteriza-se por uma absoluta linearidade evenemencial, em que, por causa e efeito, o filme progride até ao seu fim, o qual corresponde ao cumprimento de todos os objectivos do herói. Este sistema orienta o espectador ao longo do percurso de storytelling, permitindo-lhe usufruir da imersão no mundo diegético. É também nesta base que as crianças aprendem o significado do mundo, quando colocam as questões: “Porquê?”/“E depois?”. Mas e se o “depois” viesse “antes”? Nesse caso verificar-se-ia uma sabotagem do resultado e um boicote do entendimento. Contudo, é essa a proposta estética de dois filmes que decidem contar uma história com princípio, meio e fim, mas fazendo-o, em tranches, por ordem inversa à dos eventos: Irréversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002) e 5x2 (François Ozon, 2004).
Centrando-me no filme Irréversible, pretendo provar que esta construção não é um mero jogo lúdico ou um simples artifício criativo, pois o material narrativo é muito pesado e a estratégia tem intuitos ideológicos. A inversão da ordem dos acontecimentos proporciona uma avaliação do filme como discurso autoral sobre a narrativa cinematográfica, em que o realizador/argumentista nos confronta com propósitos dramatúrgicos precisos. A interpretação do filme é inteiramente condicionada pela ordem em que os factos nos são apresentados, aumentando o valor da história narrada, tanto quanto o da narração.

- by Fátima Chinita
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- Film Studies, Film Analysis, Film and Media Studies, Gaspar Noé
- by Lili Marinčić
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- Literature, Narrative, Poetics, Intertextuality

Este trabajo hace una revision de la historiografia que ha dedicado al estudio del artesanado de la Ciudad de Mexico durante el siglo xix. En las narrativas de la modernizacion economica y politica, en los metarrelatos del capitalismo y del Estado moderno se opaca la presencia de los artesanos; sin embargo, la historiografia social reciente ha mostrado su importancia. Sin una critica frontal a estos metarrelatos, el artesanado del siglo xix aparece como una anomalia historica, es decir, este trabajo muestra la necesidad de aplicar una perspectiva historica que atienda a la diversidad de experiencias de los artesanos decimononicos y a las formas identitarias que mantuvieron a pesar de los procesos de modernizacion a los que se enfrentaron

- by Miguel Orduña Carson
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- Mexican Studies, Mexico History, Modernization, Craftsmen
- by Valeria Possi
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- Maquis, Historia y Memoria, Literatura española, Memoria Histórica
- by Krzysztof Brzechczyn
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- Historiography, Philosophy of History, Postmodernism, Theory of History

Governmentality - Neoliberalism - Education: the Risk PerspectiveThis paper understands the basic elements of neoliberalism in education and governmentality to be the technologies for the neoliberal government of education. It outlines Foucault's methodology for analysing governmentality and shows how neoliberalism is a discursive formation which homogenises apparently unrelated language games and discourses. It places particular emphasis on the rhizomatic dispersion of neoliberal discursive and non-discursive practices, which in the end create a mosaic of thinking and acting with its own existing internal logic. This paper provides a cross-sectional perspective on how neoliberalism has implanted itself as a universal phenomenon along the horizontal and vertical lines of the education sphere and shows how, particularly through the policy of lifelong learning for a knowledge society, it is transforming first of all the education of adults and how subsequently it has become a fund...

- by branislav pupala
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- Globalization, Lifelong Learning, Governmentality, Early Childhood Education

Contemporary culture puts differences and multiplicity in opposition to the former urge of uniformizing; it eliminates continuity in favour of contingency; it values diversity and otherness over identity and similarity, and it rejects neatness and safety of theoretical conceptualizations. An attempt at validating the claim that also today a certain aesthetic and literary movement lives on, which for some scholars is nothing more than a historical phenomenon from the past, may seem to be an empty and hopelessly unreal rhetorical strategy. Yet, for the present monograph, the point of departure is an the assumption that artistic texts appearing and functioning in a specific cultural environment and tradition should have a feature in common. And to this particular feature, defined as Expressionism, the present work has been devoted to.

- by Joanna Janusz
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- Expressionism, Metanarrative, Narrative Patterns, Young Writers

RESUMO Ao analisar os escritos de divulgação de positivistas gaúchos do Templo Positivista de Porto Alegre entre o século XIX e XX, esse trabalho buscou compreender a noção positivista de modernidade, que envolve uma série de outros aspectos teóricos para além da teoria dos três estados, sem dúvida o aspecto mais famoso da teoria comteana. Assim, ao abordarmos características dessa doutrina, esperamos mostrar alguns pressupostos (evidências para nossos atores) que embasam esse projeto teleológico de modernidade.

- by Revista de Ciências do Estado (REVICE) UFMG and +1
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- Public Sphere, Metanarratives, Metanarrative, Modernidade

A partir do conceito de ‘narrativas bifurcadas’, tal como usado por Jorge Luis Borges, o presente artigo pretende abordar uma categoria de filmes na qual o ato de enunciação é tão importante quanto a história enunciada. Com efeito, o realizador/argumentista tanto manipula as coordenadas narrativas do filme como a resposta dos espetadores ao mesmo, através daquilo a que chamo o ‘princípio de mudança na permanência’, em que numa história dotada de um forte e imutável eixo dorsal se introduzem algumas variações. No caso do filme Flirt (Hal Hartley, 1995), o objetivo primeiro reside numa tomada de posição metanarrativa sobre a importância da manipulação extradiegética empreendida pelo ‘autor’. Analiso o modo pelo qual pequenas alterações na fabula podem fazer toda a diferença no padrão narrativo global, atentando no significado dramatúrgico implícito a esta abordagem para cada uma das três histórias em causa, bem como à relação intrínseca entre elas.

- by Fátima Chinita
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- Film Studies, Narrative, Film Analysis, Film and Media Studies
- by wan roselezam wan yahya
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- Metanarrative
- by Samira Nadkarni
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- Performance Studies, Popular Culture, Joss Whedon, Metanarrative

Compiling and publishing a folk narrative anthology is anything but a trivial, neutral undertaking, especially if this is set in a period of great literary and cultural fervour as was the late nineteenth century in Ireland. With his Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) and Irish Fairy Tales (1892) W.B. Yeats gives rise to a complex narrative system in which, necessarily, heterogeneous, if not contradictory voices and points of view meet, and the editor’s task is precisely to make this polyphony work. In the anthologized stories one observes the overlapping and interweaving of narrative levels that reflect a wide range of ideas, beliefs, knowledge, values from which emerges a picture of cultural and social Irish stratification, as well as of relationships being established between the lower and ruling classes, folklore and literature, orality and literacy. After examining in general the folk narrative anthology as an inherently polyphonic object, this essay proposes a specific reading of the Yeatsian collections, focusing in particular on the paratextual apparatus, namely on the borders, the frames of the text – where interactions take place between several narrative levels, as well as historical, cultural, and social meanings – in order to identify, if possible, elements of unity and coherence in a system constitutively plurivocal and open to a variety of interpretations.
Keywords: anthology, folklore, Irish Revival, storytelling, W.B. Yeats

- by Vito Carrassi
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- Cultural History, Irish Studies, Folklore, Irish Literature
- by Richard Grant Gilmore III
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- Epistemology, Education, History of Medicine, Geopolitics