Books Quote by Philip Kitcher

Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in…

— Philip Kitcher

Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves open. Lots…

— Philip Kitcher

Critics who perceive the first level of Mann's irony recognize that the second voice is giving us reasons to be dubious about various aspects…

— Philip Kitcher

Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of the same…

— Philip Kitcher

Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware of all…

— Philip Kitcher

Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then, this is…

— Philip Kitcher

I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further touch consists…

— Philip Kitcher

“fact, at times it seems as if The Confidence-Man has been aggressively constructed for the purpose of giving the reader the unpleasant feeling of…

— Sianne Ngai

“Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty…

— Janet Beizer

There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from…

— Philip Kitcher

I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass…

— Philip Kitcher

“I had become wiser, I tried to find out what irony really is, and discovered that some ancient writer on poetry had spoken of…

— Robertson Davies