Carl Tighe
Biographic Data
| ID | 1097595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carl Tighe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carl |
| FAMILY NAME | Tighe |
| SIGNATURE | TIGHE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Derby |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Personal
Carl Tighe has written a great deal about the interface between politics and literature in Poland, much of it published in the Journal of European Studies. Here he outlines some of the personal experience behind his articles
Wreck of the Demeter’
Poland translated
Writing and responsibility
Writing and Responsibility encourages its readers to interrogate the choices they make as writers. A look at the public consequences of the private act of writing, Carl Tighe's book is a must-read for everyone who writes or studies writing."--BOOK JACKET
Kazimierz Brandys's Warsaw Diaries
An older friend of mine, a man of outstanding intelligence and great novelistic talent, asked me a rather curious question: ‘Did you notice that out there in the street everybody is acting abnormally? The salesman is pretending to sell, the bricklayer is building imaginary homes, newspapers don't have any news, the children's traffic warden is waving his lollipop like crazy, but there isn't really any traffic [...].’ This friend of mine remembere…
The Polish Writing Profession
Citizens of the Polish People's Republic have a right to enjoy cultural achievements and to participate creatively in the development of their national culture .... The Polish People's Republic is concerned for the all-round development of scholarship, literature, and the arts, and surrounds with particular care the creative intelligentsia and those engaged in scientific, educational, literary and artistic work. The Constitution of the Polish Peo…
"Poland and "Socialism
What was Solidarity's relation to socialism? I ask the question because it has been a source of confusion not only to Western leftists who were embarrassed at the sudden growth of a trade union of protest in a supposedly "socialist" state, but also because neither Solidarity nor its individual members were too clear about the answer. When pushed to make statements, Solidarity leaders generally showed themselves to be somehow pro-American and anti…
Render Unto Ceasar
Cast your mind back to August 1980—to the media images that flowed from the Gdansk shipyard: a priest kneeling, hearing confessions, Walesa at an open-air mass, pictures of the Polish Pope pinned to the shipyard gates, Walesa's huge biro with the pictures of the Pope and the Vatican—yes, it was a very pious affair. For most Poles, and indeed for most observers from the West, it seems that from a long and troubled Polish history the Church has eme…
In Detentio Preventione in Aeternum
Wreck of the Demeter’
The Polish Writing Profession
Citizens of the Polish People's Republic have a right to enjoy cultural achievements and to participate creatively in the development of their national culture .... The Polish People's Republic is concerned for the all-round development of scholarship, literature, and the arts, and surrounds with particular care the creative intelligentsia and those engaged in scientific, educational, literary and artistic work. The Constitution of the Polish Peo…
In Detentio Preventione in Aeternum
Render Unto Ceasar
Cast your mind back to August 1980—to the media images that flowed from the Gdansk shipyard: a priest kneeling, hearing confessions, Walesa at an open-air mass, pictures of the Polish Pope pinned to the shipyard gates, Walesa's huge biro with the pictures of the Pope and the Vatican—yes, it was a very pious affair. For most Poles, and indeed for most observers from the West, it seems that from a long and troubled Polish history the Church has eme…
"Poland and "Socialism
What was Solidarity's relation to socialism? I ask the question because it has been a source of confusion not only to Western leftists who were embarrassed at the sudden growth of a trade union of protest in a supposedly "socialist" state, but also because neither Solidarity nor its individual members were too clear about the answer. When pushed to make statements, Solidarity leaders generally showed themselves to be somehow pro-American and anti…
The Polish Writing Profession
Citizens of the Polish People's Republic have a right to enjoy cultural achievements and to participate creatively in the development of their national culture .... The Polish People's Republic is concerned for the all-round development of scholarship, literature, and the arts, and surrounds with particular care the creative intelligentsia and those engaged in scientific, educational, literary and artistic work. The Constitution of the Polish Peo…
Kazimierz Brandys's Warsaw Diaries
An older friend of mine, a man of outstanding intelligence and great novelistic talent, asked me a rather curious question: ‘Did you notice that out there in the street everybody is acting abnormally? The salesman is pretending to sell, the bricklayer is building imaginary homes, newspapers don't have any news, the children's traffic warden is waving his lollipop like crazy, but there isn't really any traffic [...].’ This friend of mine remembere…
Writing and responsibility
Writing and Responsibility encourages its readers to interrogate the choices they make as writers. A look at the public consequences of the private act of writing, Carl Tighe's book is a must-read for everyone who writes or studies writing."--BOOK JACKET
Poland translated
Personal
Carl Tighe has written a great deal about the interface between politics and literature in Poland, much of it published in the Journal of European Studies. Here he outlines some of the personal experience behind his articles
Wreck of the Demeter’
History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works)