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This short collection of essays looks at the television show and films produced by the Monty Python troupe from a number of perspectives:
Gender studies
Post-structuralism
Psychoanalysis
Cultural studies
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Bibliographical Information
Foreword Terry Jones
Part One: Monty Python's Body and Death
1. "It's a Mr. Death or something. He has come about the reaping. I don't think we need any at the moment": Death and the Denial of Death in the Works of Monty Python
Katarzyna Mäecka
2. The Body, Desire and the Abject: The Corpse and Cannibalism in Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketches
Edyta Lorek-Jezi¿ska
3. The Representation of Women in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Katarzyna Poloczek
Part Two: Monty Python, The Fool
4. Monty Python and the Flying Feast of Fools
Stephen Butler and Wojciech Klepuszewski
5. "How fortunate we are indeed to have such a poet on these shores": Shakespeare, Monty Python and the Tradition of the Wise Fool
Miguel Ángel González Campos
6. The Village Idiot and His Relation to the Unconscious
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz
Part Three: Monty Python Goes Abroad
7. The British Look Abroad: Monty Python and the Foreign
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz
8. 20th Century Vole, Mr. Neutron, and Spam: Portrayals of American Culture in the Work of Monty Python
Kevin F. Kern
9. Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus: the Unique German Show
Adam Sumera
Part Four: Pythonian Aesthetics and Beyond
10. Eric Idle and the Counterculture
Richard Mills
11. Kitsch Britannia in Monty Python's Flying Circus
Justyna St¿pie¿
List of Contributors
Index
About the Contributors
About the Editor
About the author
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz is assistant professor in the department of British literature and culture at the University of ¿ódz in Poland.
Summary
This short collection of essays looks at the television show and films produced by the Monty Python troupe from a number of perspectives:*Gender studies *Post-structuralism *Psychoanalysis *Cultural studies
