trope• Knowledge of their ontological status thus functions in Textermination as a trope for indeterminacy.• In effect, Freud attributes to the unconscious the power of a writer brilliantly deploying the classicaltropes to transform his material.• The movement was also programmatically self-conscious, one of the modernist tropes.• Brooke-Rose reverses this familiar postmodernist trope by focusing instead on the relation between the characters and their readers.
Origintrope
(1500-1600)Latintropus, from Greektropos“turn, way, style”, from trepein“to turn”