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We're all caught up in the world and we all imagine the world. Literature and philosophy are ways to imagine a better world. But they are nothing without someone to write and someone to read. In Shakespeare's Othello, Desdemona and Emilia chat about the world, and what they'd do to gain it. In Poe's fiction the world becomes a 'whirl' that threatens to take everything down with it. For Derrida 'the fiction of the world' is the place, except it's not really a place, where you and I can touch.

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Why is it important?

It takes deconstruction to heart.

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This page is a summary of: A Huge Thing, Oxford Literary Review, July 2013, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/olr.2013.0058.
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