epigonality
epigonality noun: creative followership; imitation.
Noun
epigonality
- Creative followership; imitation.
- 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 epigonic methods.2004, Paul Bishop, Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, Camden House, →ISBN, page 325
- I would suggest that the weighting towards a male-authored tradition in Italy does cause female authors to feel a different kind of inhibition from that generic sense of epigonality associated with the post-modern period.2007, Danielle E. Hipkins, Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic: The Creation of Literary Space, MHRA, →ISBN, page 1
Synonyms of epigonality
Origin of epigonality
From epigone (“follower; disciple”) + -ality.
Questions about epigonality
- What does epigonality mean?
- Epigonality means creative followership; imitation.
- What part of speech is epigonality?
- Epigonality is a noun.
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