metastoryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

metastory (複数形 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 かつ 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.

アナグラム

• tetrasomy