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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 Northrop Frye's  work praised?
His lasting reputation rests principally on the theory of literary criticism that he developed in Anatomy of Criticism (1957)

Question: What contribution did his work make to the literary world?
Self-contained rewrite: What contribution did Northrop Frye's work make to the literary world?