epigonism

epigone +‎ -ism

epigonism (usually uncountable, plural epigonisms)

1. An artistic or literary imitation of an artist by a later generation; stereotyped repetition.
   • 1948, William Van O'Connor, Sense and Sensibility in Modern Poetry:

     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 […]

2. The product of an epigone.

From French épigonisme.

epigonism n (uncountable)

1. epigonism