Somebody, could it have been Paul de Man, perpetrated a little trickery--well, not trickery exactly but magic:
"The next step was graduate school and it appears that de Man's entry to the Comparative Literature programme at Harvard was effected by sleight of hand."
Who could the magician have been? A clerk at the Comparative Literature program?
No, maybe it was de Man himself, for Jefferson continues with this curiously passive construction:
"The transcript from the Universite[need acute accent] libre de Bruxelles was fraudulently glossed by de Man to confirm that he had obtained a Bachelor's degree with distinction."
It was not as if Paul de Man were guilty of anything: "He was clearly incapable of complying with rules and requirements, and he equally clearly had a knack for succeeding on his own terms."
And yet that wicked wicked Evelyn Barish makes against poor blighted de Man "an insidiously blanket accusation of deviousness." Barish, you take my breath away!
I have never read a more contemptible piece than Ann Jefferson's in the TLS.
"The next step was graduate school and it appears that de Man's entry to the Comparative Literature programme at Harvard was effected by sleight of hand."
Who could the magician have been? A clerk at the Comparative Literature program?
No, maybe it was de Man himself, for Jefferson continues with this curiously passive construction:
"The transcript from the Universite[need acute accent] libre de Bruxelles was fraudulently glossed by de Man to confirm that he had obtained a Bachelor's degree with distinction."
It was not as if Paul de Man were guilty of anything: "He was clearly incapable of complying with rules and requirements, and he equally clearly had a knack for succeeding on his own terms."
And yet that wicked wicked Evelyn Barish makes against poor blighted de Man "an insidiously blanket accusation of deviousness." Barish, you take my breath away!
I have never read a more contemptible piece than Ann Jefferson's in the TLS.
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