metastory

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English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ story.

Noun

metastory (plural metastories)

  1. An overarching story having other stories embedded within it.
    • 2006, Frederick T. L. Leong, James T. Austin, The Psychology Research Handbook:
      Once analytic units have been identified, the researcher will often combine the narratives of individual participants into a metastory.
    • 2015, Souvik Mukherjee, Video Games and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books:
      A game like chess, for example, may not really have a well-scripted narrative but its structure is certainly informed by a metastory of two armies (black and white, with varying significances) engaged in strategic battle.
    • 2017, David Owen, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Player and Avatar: The Affective Potential of Videogames, page 148:
      The Assassin's Creed franchise is framed within a present day metastory involving a major corporation that may or may not be run by Templars.
  2. A story about stories themselves.

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