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...consequent death of two undergraduates were shocking enough, these victims were only two of seven undergraduates total who died during the winter break of 1956. During the holidays, three other students—Thomas S. Gates III ’56, Myron T. Herrick ’57, and Jedediah H. McLane ’58—were killed in a fire during a ski trip in Canada, and two more—Winthrop P. Smith ’58 and John J. Woodward ’59—were found dead both...
...JEDEDIAH PURDY. Purdy, whose anti-irony tract “For Common Things” made a stir a few years ago, is promoting his newest work, “Being America,” a post-Sept. 11 exploration of foreign attitudes towards America. Tuesday, March 4 at 7 p.m. WordsWorth Books, 30 Brattle...
...Jedediah S. Purdy ’97, author of the best-seller For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today and an upcoming book on globalization. I wish I understood film. I didn’t learn anything about movies in college except a few trips to the Brattle. This whole vocabulary of sounds and images—all I can do with it is feel my way around it blindly. It’s really important for understanding what goes on not only in entertainment but also for film as a modern literature. I really regret that...
...more quickly than possible. The repudiation of irony was an attempt to make sense of what happened. It was a presumption that people were interested in how other people were doing and the preemptive sneer of bad irony didn’t have a place,” says Jedediah Purdy `97, author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today and another upcoming zeitgest-chaser about globalization. Purdy has thought a bit about irony, and he has thought it through a bit more than the people who announced its demise. Initial shock meant parody was paralyzed...
Another young author, Jedediah Purdy, last year published For Common Things, about the threat of the "ironic individual," possessed of acute self-awareness and mistrust, which, Purdy argued, led to cynicism. Heartbreaking Work is a resounding rebuttal. In it, literary gamesmanship and self-consciousness are trained on life's most unendurable experience, used to examine a memory too scorching to stare at, as one views an eclipse by projecting sunlight onto paper through a pinhole. This is not irony obscuring sincerity. It is, finally, irony in the service of sincerity...