"epigonality" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Paul Bishop, Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, Camden House, page 325",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2007, Danielle E. Hipkins, Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic: The Creation of Literary Space, MHRA, page 1",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2019, Angelika Neuwirth, The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage, Oxford University Press",
          "text": "Above all, two continuously encountered research perspectives stand in the way of an objective and open-ended textual investigation: teleology and, often in conjunction with it, the assumption of epigonality.",
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        "Creative followership; imitation."
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        "(rare) Creative followership; imitation."
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          "ref": "2004, Paul Bishop, Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, Camden House, page 325",
          "text": "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.",
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