epigonality

epigone (“follower; disciple”) +‎ -ality

epigonality

1. (rare) Creative followership; imitation.

   Synonyms: epigonism, imitation

   • 2004, Paul Bishop, Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition, Camden House (ISBN 9781571132826), page 325:

     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.

   • 2007, Danielle E. Hipkins, Contemporary Italian Women Writers and Traces of the Fantastic: The Creation of Literary Space, MHRA (ISBN 9781905981090), page 1:

     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.

   • 2019, Angelika Neuwirth, The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage, Oxford University Press (ISBN 9780190921309)

     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.