Meanings
plural epilogomena
- A supplementary or concluding addendum.
In these epilogomena some implications and connections to various themes in the theory of religion will be considered.
2013, Michael Pye, Exploring Religions in Motion, page 1453 more examples
Like the poem of Epysychidion, by Shelley, the entrails of our epilogomena, will be caviare to the many-headed but to the select few will be as water to the parched earth, as manna to the hungry Israelite; they will unravel our sphinxities, and untwist our enigmatics, so that our dictum shall be as the opening of the seventh seal, or the finality of cherubian metastasis.
1841 December 30, “Musical Intelligence”, in The Musical World, volume 16, number 301, page 424Dostoevsky worked out his own epilogomenon to the Orthodox doctrine and incorporated his theories into The Brothers Karamazov .
1974, RBPH.: - Volume 52, Issues 3-4, page 629Adorno's "epilogomena" addresses the work in absolute terms, consigning its programmatic trappings—emphasized by Berg in his Ope Letter (Berg, no. 47)—to the element of playfulness.
2018, Bryan R. Simms, Alban Berg: A Research and Information Guide
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