e principles of particular importance, which he says does not mean they are separable. The first is convention, or the reshaping of the poetic material which is appropriate to this subject; a second is genre, the choosing of the appropriate form; the third is archetype, the use of appropriate, and therefore recurring, images and symbols; and the fourth is the fact that the forms of literature are autonomous and do not exist outside of literature. Scholarship in general is praised by Frye as being a necessary condition for understanding literature, and he says that value judgments are dependent on scholarship:
Scholarship, or the knowledge of literature, constantly expands and increases; value judgments are produced by a skill based on the knowledge we already have. Thus scholarship has both priority to value judgments and the power of veto over them.
Ferdinand de Saussure offers an explication of the linguistic approach and the meaning of language and contributed to the development of structuralism. He sees the nature of communication as deri
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