counterexposition

noun

An exposition that responds to, or counters, another exposition.

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Meanings

nouncounterexposition (plural counterexpositions)

plural counterexpositions

  1. An exposition that responds to, or counters, another exposition.

    The process, repeated, forms an exposition answered with a finale or counterexposition. The root of fugue is flight or fleeing and in musicology is eventually connected to a flight of fancy that brings us back to fantasia.

    2009, Peter Hitchcock, The Long Space: Transnationalism and Postcolonial Form, page 222

Origin

From counter- + exposition.

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Chicago

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