ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Epigonism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Epigonism is a noun meaning An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.

Meaning

An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.

More Meanings

  1. The product of an epigone.

Example Sentences

Such a form of epigonism seems explicable only in that the authors, having no poetic sensibilities of their own, appropriate a poetry with which, presumably, they grew up. An even less excusable form of epigonism is the fairly frequent […]

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Related dictionary entries include epigonality, autoparody, pasticheur, pastiche, parodying, eidolopeia.

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