skepticism towards metanarratives in postmodernity, or prescribing such skepticism. Lyotard's critics emphasize that metanarratives continue to play a major role in the postmodern world.

Lyotard's proposal

Lyotard proposed that metanarratives should give way to , or more modest and "localized" narratives, which can "throw off" a grand narrative by bringing into focus a singular event. Borrowing from the works of Wittgenstein and his theory of the "models

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