A PhD thesis at the College of Fine Arts, University of Basra, researched metanarrative representations in postmodern arts. The thesis presented by the researcher (Assaad Mohsen Aliwi) included the subject of postmodern arts and its attempt to find a connection between the cognitive genres and the emergence of the concept of metanarratives within postmodern narratives as a different form of narrative contexts. fashionable modern.
The objective of the thesis is to identify the concept of metanarrative and its representations in postmodern arts.
The thesis concluded that the metanarrative represents the new transformations of postmodern arts as a departure from the usual rules of narration and as a manifestation of the tendency to escape from modern restrictions, laws and concentrations.