And that is the present and, I should say, the final moment in the master narrative.

The central tenet of this master narrative was (and is) "democratization".

By avoiding a master narrative, the authors are practicing a form of shared authority through the book itself.

We want to go right at the problem of an exhausted master narrative.

There's a master narrative, something about a friend in a coma: it's serious, as they say.

Post-modernists tell us that the era of "master narratives" has ended.

"Collection Highlights" reinstates what might be called the core of the master narrative.

Rotheram is locked in his own struggle against a master narrative.

Perhaps he was right: no record label has done the research and licensing to assemble a master narrative of his musical life.