"epigonic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1969, William S. Newman, The sonata since Beethoven: the third and final volume of a history of the sonata idea:",
          "text": "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).",
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          "text": "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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        "Being or relating to an epigone or disciple; imitative."
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