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Arts and Humanities, English Language and Literature, and Literature in English, British Isles

Medieval Literature, HEL, Comedy, Mythology, Nerdcore, Lycanthropy, Arthuriana, Chaucer, Tolkien, Pratchett, Aristophanes, and Monty Python

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"Hail to the King[s], Baby" Arthur vs Army of ...

The Arthurian World (2022)

Jeff Massey and Tabitha Ochtera

Given the current penchant for “medieval misappropriation” among white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and political pundits, medievalists are clearly justified in directing ...

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"Hail to the King[s], Baby" Arthur vs Army of ...

The Arthurian World (Part of The Routledge Worlds series) (2022)

Jeff Massey and Tabitha Ochtera

Given the current penchant for “medieval misappropriation” among white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and political pundits, medievalists are clearly justified in directing ...

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Joining the Circus: The Pythons before Monty Python

(2017)

Brian Cogan and Jeff Massey

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Monty Python FAQ: All That's Left to Know About ...

(2017)

Jeff Massey, Brian Cogan and Chris Barsanti

Ni! Peng! Nee-wom! Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, revered and august publisher of weighty tomes on all things histrionic, is ...

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"Yeah? Well, MY god has a HAMMER!": Myth-Taken Identity in ...

Marvel Comics into Film: Essays on Adaptations Since the 1940s (2016)

Jeff Massey and Brian Cogan

With box office returns of well over a billion dollars worldwide, The Avengers (2012) clearly struck a chord with audiences ...

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"On Second Thought, Let's Not Go to Camelot... `Tis ...

Medieval Science Fiction (2016)

Jeff Massey

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Spamalot: Lovingly Ripping Off / Ripping On the Establishment

Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture (2015)

Jeff Massey and Brian Cogan

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Python Wrassling: Is God Really Real, or Is There Some ...

God and Popular Culture: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Entertainment Industry's Most Influential Figure (2015)

Jeff Massey and Brian Cogan

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Everything I Ever Needed to Know About _____* I Learned ...

(2014)

Jeff Massey and Brian Cogan

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Heads Will Roll: Decapitations in the Medieval and Early Modern ...

(2002)

Jeff Massey

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Learning From Monty Python, Hulsey Runs For Governor, How Did ...

(2014)

Jeff Massey

Monty Python's influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles' influence on music. Rob Ferrett and Veronica Rueckert explore how ...

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Drawing Life Lessons from Monty Python

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Face Front, True Believers!: Stan Lee and the Gen X ...

The Popular Culture Studies Journal (2016)

Jeff Massey and Brian Cogan

Before Whedon, before Lucas, even before Roddenberry, there was Lieber: world-creator, comic huckster, bombastic barker, and unifying voice behind the ...

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Riddling Meaning from OE - haga compounds

Studies in Philology (2015)

Jeff Massey and Karma DeGruy

Although the Anglo-Saxon compound anhaga (appearing in Beowulf, The Wanderer, Andreas, Elene, Phoenix, Maxims II, and Riddle 5 of the ...

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Review of Monsters, Gender, and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature ...

Speculum (2012)

Jeff Massey

The perceived gender, overt sexuality, and frightening reproductive potential of medieval monsters are placed under the cultural mico- and macro-scope ...

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"What's Wrong with this Picture?": Teaching Arthuriana via the ...

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART) (2005)

Jeff Massey

Following their infamous “Bring out your dead” scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the grimy Dead Collector (Eric ...

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The Double Bind of Troilus to Tellen: The Time of ...

The Chaucer Review (2003)

Jeff Massey

In retelling the tale of Troilus's "double sorwe" - his loving and losing of Criseyde - Chaucer critically explores the ...

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From Baggins to Beowful and Back Again: Teaching (via) Tolkien

In Concerning Hobbits: A Collection of Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien (2001)

Jeff Massey

Beowulf, is traditionally at least, a difficult text for incoming freshmen. The Hobbit is arguably less so. In part this ...

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Why Wildeve Had to Die: Mimetic Triangles and Violent Ends ...

The Hardy Review (2000)

Jeff Massey

Although significant critical attention has been directed toward understanding Eustacia Vye’s death in Hardy’s The V^tum of the Native (1878), ...

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