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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Souls/Soles Of Signs Tell Totems And The Sphinx Wager, Darryl A. Smith M.Div., Ph.D.
Souls/Soles Of Signs Tell Totems And The Sphinx Wager, Darryl A. Smith M.Div., Ph.D.
Occasional Papers
This paper develops a philosophy of play through an analysis of the foot wager of the Sphinx. Applying a construction of the cosmology of Plato along with a Socratic etymology of her riddle’s answer, it provides a reading of Sphingian contestation consistent with contemporary practices of deception found in modern games like poker. I argue that such deception is constitutive of the excessive illumination of signaling tells in games and that such excess, in turn, is indicative in allied political contexts of a covetous and acquisitive obsession with light. This theory makes use also of Ralph Ellison’s refiguring of Oedipal …
Davis, Nathan William (Fa 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davis, Nathan William (Fa 534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 534. Folklore material classified by genre. Information collected by Nathan William Davis related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Loveall, Sandra Kaye, B. 1964 (Fa 486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Loveall, Sandra Kaye, B. 1964 (Fa 486), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional File" below) for Folklife Archives Project 486. Folklore material classified by genre. Information collected by Sandra Kaye Loveall related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Mccomas, Eric Donald, B. 1983 (Fa 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mccomas, Eric Donald, B. 1983 (Fa 484), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional File" below) for Folklife Archives Project 484. Folkore material classified by genre. Information collected by Eric Donald McComas related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Ingram, Tracy (Fa 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ingram, Tracy (Fa 482), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional File" below) for Folklife Archives Project 482. Folklore material classified by genre. Information collected by Tracy Ingram related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Jackson, Rebecca Lee Watson (Fa 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Rebecca Lee Watson (Fa 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 519. Collection includes material collected by Rebecca Lee (Watson) Jackson for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. Included are interviews with five people about personal narratives, riddles, horses, and Serbo-Croatian folk tales, photographs of examples of material culture and photographs and a list of performers from the 2004 Southern Folklife Festival at the Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee.
Crabtree, Julie Anne, B. 1988 (Fa 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Crabtree, Julie Anne, B. 1988 (Fa 483), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 483. Folklore material classified by genre. Information collected by Julie Anne Crabtree related to folklore genres for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky University.
Morgan, Julia E. (Fa 336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morgan, Julia E. (Fa 336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 336. Paper: "American Girl Magazine and Children's Riddles," written by Julia E. Morgan for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Dogs, Domestication, And The Ego, Gary Shapiro
Dogs, Domestication, And The Ego, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
In Zarathustra's "On the Vision and the Riddle," three animals-a spider, a snake, and a dog-make significant appearances, as do three human or quasihuman figures-Zarathustra himself, the dwarf known as the Spirit of Gravity, and the shepherd who must bite off the head of the snake. Of these animals, it is the dog who receives the most extended attention. Here, in the passage that along with "The Convalescent" (with its eagle and serpent) is usually and rightly taken to be Nietzsche's most articulate and yet highly veiled approach to explaining the teaching of eternal recurrence, the riddling vision involves animals. …