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What is the order of words meaning?
Frye argues, as an order of words, providing criticism with a conceptual framework and a body of knowledge derived not from an ideological system but rooted in the imagination itself.
Was his work praised?
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What contribution did his work make to the literary world?
The recurring primitive formulas Frye noticed in his survey of the "greatest classics" provide literature with an order of words, a "skeleton.
What is the skeleton to him?
a "skeleton" which allows the reader "to respond imaginatively to any literary work by seeing it in the larger perspective provided by its literary and social contexts" .
Why are they helpful to understand?
Frye identifies these formulas as the "conventional myths and metaphors" which he calls "archetypes" .
Why are there archetypes?
The archetypes of literature exist, Frye argues, as an order of words, providing criticism with a conceptual framework and a body of knowledge.

Question: What did people think of Frye's concepts?
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