epigonic

English

Etymology

epigone +‎ -ic

Adjective

epigonic (comparative more epigonic, superlative most epigonic)

1. Being or relating to an epigone or disciple; imitative.

   Synonym: imitative

   • 1969, William S. Newman, The sonata since Beethoven: the third and final volume of a history of the sonata idea

     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).

   • 2004, Paul Bishop, Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, Camden House (→ISBN), page 325:

     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.