Dr. W. (Wim) Tigges
Position:
- Researcher
- Popular culture
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2161 |
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| E-Mail: | w.tigges@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Oude Britse letterkunde |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex P.N. van Eyckhof 4 2311 BV Leiden Room number 2.06b |
| Personal Homepage: | www.hum.leiden.edu/icd/organisation/members/tiggesw.html |
Fields of interest
- Popular culture from the early Middle Ages to the present day
- Nonsense literature
- British and Irish prose fiction, 1760-1940
Research
The aesthetics of popular culture, in particular: literary nonsense; action-series and films featuring female heroes. Dr Tigges is currently co-editor, with Lorna Jowett and Deborah Monroy, of a forthcoming collection of papers on "Xena: Warrior Princess"
Teaching activities
Dr Tigges has taught courses on Old and Middle English as well as on Modern English and Irish literature, as well as introductory courses on Old and Modern (Gaelic) Irish.
Curriculum Vitae
- 2004 early retirement
- 2004 - guest lecturer at the English Department at the University of Leiden; regular lecturer at HOVO Leiden (Academic courses for Seniors)
- 1988 PhD on literary nonsense from the University of Leiden
- 1985 Master's (equivalent) degree in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam
- 1974-2004 Lecturer (assistant professor) in Medieval, later Modern English literature, in the English Department, Leiden
- 1974 Honours M.A. (equivalent) degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Leiden
Key publications
- W. Tigges, “Her Courage Will Change the World”: An Appraisal of Xena: Warrior Princess. www.lulu.com (print-on-demand), 2007.
- Tigges, W. en F. Ó Béarra, An Old Irish Primer. Nijmegen: De Keltische Draak, 2006.
- W. Tigges, ed., Moments of Moment: Aspects of the Literary Epiphany, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999.
- W. Tigges, An Anatomy of Literary Nonsense, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1988.
2011
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Tigges, W. (2011)
Mister Pip: Een navertelling zonder opsmuk. In Houppermans, J.J.M., Jacobs, J.G.A.M., Kruk, R. (Eds.) Déjà vu -- Herhaling in culturen wereldwijd (pp. 273-294). Leiden: Leiden University Press.
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2010
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Tigges, W. (2010)
"When Found, Make a Note Of": Dickens in Detail. The Dutch Dickensian, XXX (70), pp. 22-33.
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Tigges, W. (2010)
A Feminist Mirage of the New Life: Utopian Elements in The Story of an African Farm. In Corporaal, M & Leeuwen, E.J., van (Eds.) The Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910 (pp. 189-208). Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi.
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Tigges, W. (2010)
Xena Rules: A Feminized Version of Antony and Cleopatra. Feminist Media Studies, 10 (4), pp. 441-455.
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2009
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Tigges, W. (2009)
Alfred Tennyson en de Klassieken. Amphora, 28 (6), pp. 11-13.
(Article)
2008
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Tigges, W. (2008)
"I Have Many Skills". Additional Papers on Xena: Warrior Princess. Leiden: W. Tigges (via lulu.com).
(Book (monograph))
2007
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Tigges, W. (2007)
"Her Courage Will Change the World": An Appraisal of Xena: Warrior Princess. NN: Lulu.
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Tigges, W. (2007)
Benjamin Disraeli, flamboyant politicus en bellettrist. Armada : Tijdschrift voor Wereldliteratuur, 13 (46), pp. 19-28.
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Tigges, W. (2007)
Strandjutters, zeeschuimers en parelvissers in de Stille Zuidzee. In Kruk, R. & Houppermans, J.M.M. (Eds.) De Zee, de Zee in literaturen wereldwijd (pp. 177-202). Amsterdam: Rozenberg.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2006
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Tigges, W. (2006)
An Old Irish Primer. Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij De Keltische Draak.
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2005
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Tigges, W. (2005)
Facing the Truth: Two Belfast Novels. In Tinkler-Villani, V. (Ed.) Babylon or New Jerusalem: Perceptions of the City in Literature (pp. 179-193). Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
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Tigges, W. (2005)
Lamheid en ontnuchtering in James Joyces Dubliners. In Kruk, R. & Houppermans, S. (Eds.) Een vis in een fles raki: Literatuur en Drank in verschillende Culturen (pp. 31-55). Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2003
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Tigges, W. (2003)
A Glorious Thing: The Byronic Hero as Pirate Chief. In D'haen, Th.L., Liebregts, P., Tigges, W. (Eds.) Configuring Romanticism (pp. 153-172). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
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D'haen, T.L. & Liebregts, P.T.M.G. & Tigges, W. (Eds.) (2003)
Configuring Romanticism. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
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Tigges, W. (2003)
Het estheticistisch-anarchistisch verzet van Oscar Wilde. In Houppermans, S., Kruk, R., Maier, H. (Eds.) Rapsoden & Rebellen. Literatuur en politiek in verschillende culturen (pp. 149-166). Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2002
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Tigges, W. (2002)
Aantekeningen. , Twee Balladen (S.T. Coleridge, De ballade van de oude zeeman; Oscar Wilde, De ballade van Reading Gaol, pp. 147-155. Amsterdam: Athenaeum - Polak & van Gennep.
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Tigges, W. (2002)
Inleiding. , Twee Balladen (S.T. Coleridge, De ballade van de oude zeeman; Oscar Wilde, De ballade van Reading Gaol, pp. 7-37. Amsterdam: Athenaeum - Polak & van Gennep.
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2001
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Tigges, W. (2001)
Litriocht as Gaeilge: Het Iers en de moderne Ierstalige literatuur. Bzzletin (276), pp. 33-45.
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Tigges, W. (2001)
White Peacocks in a Waste Land: A Reading of Crome Yellow. In Barfoot, C.C. (Ed.) Aldous Huxley between East and West (pp. 19-33). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1999
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Tigges, W. (1999)
Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam. Den Haag: Direct Dutch Publications.
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Tigges, W. (1999)
Beckett and Beckett. [Bespreking van: Beckett versus Beckett]. In: Het Beckett Blad, 16, pp. 9-10.
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Tigges, W. (1999)
Confusion is not an Ignoble Condition: Other Languages in Brian Friel's Translations. In: Hoenselaars, T. & Buning, M. (Eds.), English Literature and the Other Languages (dqr sTUDIES IN lITERATURE), 24. , pp. 197-210. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
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Tigges, W. (1999)
Heir of All the Ages: Tennyson between Romanticism, Victorianism and Modernism. In: Barfoot, C.C. (Ed.), Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle: The Fusions and Confusions of Literary Periods (DQR Studies in Literature), 27. , pp. 307-322. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
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Tigges, W. (Ed.) (1999)
Moments of Moment: Aspects of the Literary Epiphany. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
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Tigges, W. (1999)
The Significance of Trivial Things: Towards a Typology of Literary Epiphanies. In: Tigges, W. (Ed.), Moments of Moment: Aspects of the Literary Epiphany (DQR Studies in Literature), 25. , pp. 11-35. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
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Tigges, W. (1999)
Which was the latest moon? An Annotation to Tennyson's In Memoriam. Victorian Poetry, 37, pp. 539-545.
(Article)
1998
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Tigges, W. (1998)
Buitensporige belevenissen: H.G. Wells en het laat-Victoriaanse avonturenverhaal. In: Houppermans, S., Idema, W.L., Kruk, R. (Eds.), Op avontuur! Aspecten van avonturenverhalen in Oost en West, pp. 120-137. Zutphen: De Walburgpers.
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Tigges, W. (1998)
James Joyce, Mme Raphael, Danis Rose, and the Fallacy of First Draft Authority. James Joyce Quarterly, 35/4+36/1, pp. 834-840.
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Tigges, W. (1998)
Varieties of Hiberno-English in Literary Texts. In: Barfoot, C.C. & Wurff, W., van der (Eds.), Varieties of EnglishLeiden: Universiteit Leiden, vakgroep Engels.
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1997
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Tigges, W. (1997)
Beckett On and On ... [Bespreking van: Beckett On and On]. In: Het Beckett Blad, 12, pp. 15-16.
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Tigges, W. & Regeer, P. (1997)
Meren en rivieren. Het blauwe bloed der aarde. Sassenheim: Pro Terra Boeken.
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Tigges, W. (1997)
The Buke of the Chess and the Medieval Game. In: Buuren, C., van (Ed.), The Buke of the Chess (The Scottish Text Society, Fourth Series), 27. , pp. xcv-cix. Edinburgh: The Scottish Text Society.
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1996
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Liebregts, P.T.M.G. & Tigges, W. (Eds.) (1996)
Beauty and the Beast: Christina Rossetti, Walter Pater, R.L. Stevenson and Their Contemporaries. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
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Tigges, W. (1996)
Leaves or Letters? A Crux in Tennyson's In Memoriam. Victorian Poetry, 34, pp. 279-282.
(Article)
1995
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Tigges, W. (1995)
Morgenrood van een magiër: William Butler Yeats. In: Schipper, M. & Schrijvers, P. (Eds.), Bezweren en betoveren. Magie en literatuur wereldwijd, pp. 175-189. Amsterdam: Ambo.
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Tigges, W. (1995)
Nonsense bij Dickens. The Dutch Dickensian, 15, pp. 8-17.
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Tigges, W. (1995)
Public, private and poetic: Wolf Tone's autobiographical writings. In: Leerssen, J., Weel, J., van der, Westerweel, B. (Eds.), Forging in the smithy: National identity and representation in Anglo-Irish literature, pp. 59-74. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
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Tigges, W. (1995)
The split personality and other Gothic elements in David Lindsay's A voyage to Arcturus. In: Tinkler-Villani, V. & Davidson, P. (Eds.), Exhibited by candlelight. Sources and developments in the Gothic tradition, pp. 243-254. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
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1994
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Tigges, W. (1994)
"Kandiedadelijk, iedereen!": goddelijke humor in Finnegans Wake. Bzzletin (229), pp. 86-94.
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Tigges, W. (1994)
Grote verwachtingen. De Gids, 157 (8), pp. 607-610.
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Tigges, W. (1994)
Snakes and Ladders: Ambiguity and Coherence in the Exeter Book Riddles. In Aertsen, H & Bremmer Jr, R.H. (Eds.) Companion to Old English Poetry (pp. 95-118). Amsterdam: VU University Press.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1993
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Tigges, W. (1993)
Alexander Pope, De Roof van de Lok, een komisch heldendicht, vertaald door Wim Tigges. Leiden: Academic Press Leiden.
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Tigges, W. (1993)
Catholic Diabolists: Fin de Siècle and Edwardian Parody. File. A literary journal, 2 (5), pp. 25-32.
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1992
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Tigges, W. (1992)
"An Analogue for Bloom's Mythical Potato" and "A Source for 'old fish . . . young flesh' (U 8.867). James Joyce Quarterly, 29 (4), pp. 846-847.
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Tigges, W. (1992)
"Lat the Womman Telle Hire Tale": A Reading of The Wife of Bath's Tale. English Studies, 73, pp. 97-103.
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1991
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Tigges, W. (1991)
"Earthquakes Never Occur in England", or: "Perhaps I Can Help?": The Ambivalence of the Revolutionary in Herbert Read's The Green Child. In Barfoot, C.C. & D'haen, Th. (Eds.) Tropes of Revolution: Writers' Reactions to Real and Imagined Revolutions 1789-1989 (pp. 379-390). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
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Tigges, W. (1991)
Doodgaan is de kunst. Een interpretatie van Vestdijks 'De uiterste seconde'. Vestdijkkroniek, 71 (juni), pp. 53-59.
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Tigges, W. (1991)
Positive and Negative in Formal British English: A Point of Modern English Usage. In Tieken-Boon van Ostade, I. & Frankis, J. (Eds.) Language: Usage and Description. Studies presented to N.E. Osselton on the Occasion of his Retirement (pp. 111-120). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
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Tigges, W. (1991)
Signs and Solutions: A Semiotic Approach to the Exeter Book Riddles. In Kooper, E. (Ed.) This Noble Craft ... : Proceedings of the Xth Research Symposium of the Dutch and Belgian University Teachers of Old and Middle English Historical Linguistics (pp. 59-82). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1990
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Tigges, W. (1990)
Romance and Parody. In: Aertsen, H. & MacDonald, A.A. (Eds.), Companion to Middle English Romance, pp. 129-151. Amsterdam: Amsterdam VU University Press.
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Tigges, W. (1990)
Translating "The Rape of the Lock": The Battle, the Strategy, and the Tactics. In Barfoot, C.C. & D'haen, Th. (Eds.) Centennial Hauntings: Pope, Byron and Eliot in the Year 88 (pp. 141-160). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1989
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Tigges, W. (1989)
Ireland in Wonderland: Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman as a Nonsense Novel. In Barfoot, C.C. & D'haen, Th. (Eds.) The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections (pp. 195-203). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1988
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Tigges, W. (1988)
Alice in Spiegelland. In: Couprie, L.D., Madou, M.J.H., Brederoo, N.J., Nauta, G.J. (Eds.), Oog in oog met de spiegel, pp. 259-271. Amsterdam: Aramith.
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Tigges, W. (1988)
An Anatomy of Literary Nonsense. LEI Universiteit Leiden, 260pp.(Amsterdam, Rodopi) H. Steinmetz.
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Tigges, W. (1988)
Sir Eglamour: The Knight Who Could Not Say 'No'. Neophilologus, 72 (1), pp. 107-115.
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Tigges, W. (1988)
The Fox and the Wolf: A Study in Medieval Irony. In: Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. & Aertsen, H. (Eds.), Companion to Early Middle English Literature, pp. 83-95. Amsterdam: VU University Press.
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Tigges, W. (1988)
The Land of Cokaygne: Sophisticated Mirth. In: Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. & Aertsen, H. (Eds.), Companion to Early Middle English Literature, pp. 97-104. Amsterdam: VU University Press.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
1987
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Tigges, W. (Ed.) (1987)
Explorations in the Field of Nonsense. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
(Book editorial)
1986
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Tigges, W. (1986)
An Anatomy of Nonsense. Dutch Quarterly Review Studies in Literature, 16 (3), pp. 162-185.
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Tigges, W. (1986)
The Limerick: The Sonnet of Nonsense? Dutch Quarterly Review Studies in Literature, 16 (3), pp. 220-236.
(Article)
1983
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Tigges, W. (1983)
Samuel Johnson, De geschiedenis van Rasselas, Prins van Abessynië, vert. W. Tigges. Utrecht: Het Spectrum.
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1981
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Tigges, W. (1981)
Sir Thomas Malory, De Morte Darthur, vertaald door Wim Tigges. Utrecht: Het Spectrum.
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1978
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Tigges, W. & Buddingh', C. (1978)
Babbels en krabbels van Edward Lear (vert. W. Tigges & C. Buddingh'). Utrecht: Het Spectrum.
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