counterexposition

noun

counterexposition

noun

Etymology From counter- + exposition.

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:

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