 To do so, claims Frye,
... leaves out the central structural principles that literature derives from myth, the principles that give literature its communicating power across the centuries through all ideological changes.Such structural principles are certainly conditioned by social and historical factors and do not transcend them, but they retain a continuity of form that points to an identity of the literary organism distinct from all its adaptations to its social environment ("Words with Power" xiii).Myth therefore provides structure to literature simply because literature as a whole is "displaced mythology" (Bates 21).