Meaning of epigonic | Babel Free

Definitions

Being or relating to an epigone or disciple; imitative.

Examples

“A sample of Liapunov's epigonic style may be quoted from the second theme (cited above) as it undergoes polyphonic extensions in the first development section (Ex. 122).”

“I want to show that Stifter's novel is not only important for Nietzsche's aesthetics, but it is itself concerned with developing a strategy of epigonic writing. Stifter's own commentary implies that the attempt to distance oneself from epigonality, to overcome it—as was the case with Immerman—collapses the novel, and he arrives at a conscious affirmation of epigonic methods.”

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