{"product_id":"9780191538483","title":"Fiction and the Weave of Life","description":"Literature is a source of understanding and insight into the human condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible account of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary work means that literature concerns itself not with the real world but with other worlds - what are commonly called fictional worlds. How is it, then, that fictions can tell us something of consequence about reality? In Fiction and the Weave of Life, John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and life, and shows that literature's great cultural and cognitive value is inseparable from its fictionality and inventiveness.","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081817800944,"sku":"9780191538483","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780191538483_p0.jpg?v=1763661172","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780191538483","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}