metanarrative

But the liberals don’t have the luxury of looking at the metanarrative.

Murphy’s work always tries to tease out a metanarrative about the American condition, whether the topic celebrates fame and glamor or indictment of our failings and excesses.

Eilish has both the time-honored musicianship that awards shows admire and the metanarrative savvy of her digital-era generation.

But what about Dua Lipa, who has loads of hits but maybe no metanarrative?

Here, Cage takes that to the nth degree in a metanarrative that syncs his fandom’s Cage-related obsessions with his own reflections on stardom.