Mentalization and Literary Form
-
GET 10% OFF
- Publisher's listprice GBP 150.00
-
71 662 Ft (68 250 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 7 166 Ft off)
- Discounted price 64 496 Ft (61 425 Ft + 5% VAT)
64 496 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 3 September 2025
- ISBN 9781032702254
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages100 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 350 g
- Language English 752
Categories
Short description:
This book examines the ways in which literary form facilitates mentalization and our ability to be aware of our own and others? mental states, showing how we can use this awareness to make sense of our experiences and interactions.
MoreLong description:
This book examines the ways in which literary form facilitates mentalization and our ability to be aware of our own and others? mental states, showing how we can use this awareness to make sense of our experiences and interactions.
Looking at narrative, the sonnet, free indirect speech, and autobiographical memory, Elisa Galgut focuses on the ways in which literary form not only contains difficult emotions, but how it shapes and develops these emotional states. She considers how the creative mind gives form to inchoate emotions and structures and processes them in ways that allow us to experience and give name to what was previously unclear and amorphous. Looking at the work of canonical figures of English literature, such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Austen, Galgut?s focus on form ? rather than content ? offers the reader a novel way of understanding the ways in which literature engages our emotional lives.
Assuming no prior knowledge of complex psychoanalytic concepts, Mentalization and Literary Form is aimed at academic and graduate students focusing on literary studies and philosophy, as well as psychoanalysts interested in Literature.
?The concept of mentalization?the ability to recruit one?s beliefs and attitudes to the purpose of understanding oneself and others?emerges from psychoanalysis in its contemporary form, although its origins are as old as Socrates. The first part of Elisa Galgut?s book explains the concept masterfully, in a textbook lesson, relying on her knowledge of psychoanalysis and the philosophy of mind. The book then finds its groove, recruiting the concept of mentalization to revisit such literary stalwarts as Sophocles, Shakespeare, Milton, Yeats, and Austen. Here the innovation is to highlight the importance of literary form. Her readings are original, indeed pitch-perfect. The book is pleasure to read, wonderfully composed, and should be widely read.?
Daniel Herwitz, Fredric Huetwell Professor, Comparative Literature, Philosophy History of Art
University of Michigan
More
Table of Contents:
1. The Structure of Mind: Narrative, Folk Psychology, and Mentalization 2. Form 3. The Sonnet 4. Free Indirect Discourse in Jane Austen 5. The Mentalizing Function of Memory
More
