| 词汇 | example_english_grand-narrative |
| 释义 | grand narrativecollocation in Englishmeanings of grandand narrativeThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with narrative. grand adjective uk /ɡrænd/ us /ɡrænd/ important and large ... See more at grand narrative noun[C or U] uk /ˈnær.ə.tɪv/ us /ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/ a story or a description of a series ... See more at narrative Examples of grand narrativeThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. We witness actions, confessions, and shards of a love story, but never long enough for them to coalesce into a grandnarrative. If there is indeed an end to grandnarrative, then all universal claims are suspect. There was no grandnarrative that could underwrite the success of the modernization project. Few readers seem really to have adopted the grandnarrative the most fervent of these orientalists laid out. Another recurring theme is that of a grandnarrative or abstracted approach to composition. Taken together as an allegory, the fresco offers a grandnarrative of history as the progressive implementation of justice. Such an approach has no need for a grandnarrative since the future is rendered problematic and the past becomes unpredictable (pp. 6-7). He broke the grandnarrative up into particular narratives, each only loosely connected, if at all, to others. The freedom to reject the grandnarrative systems of the past seems more important when the freedom to reject the technological systems seems so limited. Most contemporary historians explicitly reject the naive concept of progress implied in the "grandnarrative" of modern science as a timeless success story. One way in which the grandnarrative is qualified or sidelined in this book is by the author's recurrent emphasis on continuity. The rare case proves the grandnarrative that justice prevails. The history of the small stories neither makes, nor reconstructs a grandnarrative of the riots. The grandnarrative of the empire became an asset of strategic significance. This is a symptom that calls for a closer analysis of the mode in which the "grandnarrative" is typically cast. Not being postmodern, this book has no qualms about proposing a grandnarrative. Noh plays connected tutelary deities (ubusunagami) and other gods, worshipped in small village shrines, to the grandnarrative of the national chronicles. Debate on the changing view of narrative and the waning of the idea of a grandnarrative brought to the surface questions of the ordering of historical time. In postmodern terms, when the grandnarrative is questioned, factors and groupings that had been invisible under the model of national unity suddenly emerge and enter the interpretive equation. However, the author does his best to avoid a grandnarrative of modernization, especially one that views the eighteenth century as central- the "rise of consumer society" and all that. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of grand Go to the definition of narrative See other collocations with narrative |
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