L Maudit Mystique
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L’Maudit Mystique
Spanning nine generations, the L'Maudit family has gone to whatever extremes necessary in order to continue their bloodline. In 1774, while the family's earliest ancestors were struggling to establish themselves in rural south Louisiana, they seriously mistreated a young Haitian woman, who then voodoo-cursed the family, intending for their name to die out. Beginning then and continuing through time, the family offset their extinction by using several well-learned occult practices along with their cunning. Now the family's continued existence is dependent upon Marcelle, the family's last daughter of childbearing age, who is a well-educated, street-smart, successful businesswoman. At a critical time in Marcelle's life, while struggling with her responsibilities of continuing the L'Maudit lineage and operating her family's guarded grave-robbing business, she finds herself the target of a relentless stalker. Unknown to Ms. L'Maudit, a villainous association is suspicious of her extraordinary supernatural capabilities and is determined to make her work for them. As if Marcelle's life isn't complicated and dangerous enough, now she must determine whether the charismatic Daniel Stevens, who injects himself into her world, is friend or foe. In a statewide game of deadly cat and mouse, stretching from New Orleans's French Quarter through the historic and haunted Lafayette Cemetery to the L'Maudit ancestral homestead deep within the Atchafalaya swamplands, Marcelle is put to the ultimate test to protect her family.
Pragmatic Plagiarism
Author: Marilyn Randall
language: en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date: 2001-01-01
In this illuminating study, Marilyn Randall takes on the question of why some cases of literary repetition become great art, while others are relegated to the ignominy of plagiarism. Her discussion reveals that plagiarism is not the objective textual fact it is often taken for, but a phenomenon governed by the norms and conventions of literary reception. Randall turns her focus on the critical debates surrounding cases of perceived plagiarism. Charting the progress of plagiarism in the history of Western letters, her study ranges over centuries, from the notion's first apperance in Roman times to contemporary disputes about intellectual property. Randall considers the development of copyright law and the notion of authorship, presents a wide range of texts, and draws aptly on Foucault's notion of the discursive construction of authorship. Just as Foucault studied insanity to find out what was meant by sanity, says Randall, so the study of plagiarism can reveal what was meant by the term "literary" at various cultural moments. She shows that perceived instances of plagiarism are aspects of an ongoing power struggle in the literary field. And as she reveals, it is not the plagiarist but the accuser who is most concerned with achieving profit and power.
The Mystic
One Spirit reincarnates into three women: CHAT, first Oracle at Delphi; COLLIE, escaping public hanging to live worldwide; and GRANDMOTHER, living tormented amidst ancient spirits.