Olga C M Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 10329352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olga C M Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olga C M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER O C M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gower's Tale of Florent and Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale
Fischer offers one of the most detailed comparisons of the two most frequently compared passages in Chaucer's and Gower's poems. She draws a general distinction between what she labels the baroque of WB and the classical style of Gower's Confessor, borrowing her terms from H.H. Meier. The former she describes as emotive, committed, excited and the latter as calm, detached, orderly; and she analyzes the specific stylistic features in which this ge…
The demise of the Old English impersonal construction
Jespersen (1894) was the first to attempt to provide an account of the changes that the Old English (OE) impersonal construction was subject to over a period of time, finally ending in its disappearance from the language. The analysis that he proposed, and that he worked out in greater detail in Jespersen (1927), has essentially been taken over by other linguists writing on the subject since then, the only difference lying in the type of explanat…
The demise of the Old English impersonal construction
Jespersen (1894) was the first to attempt to provide an account of the changes that the Old English (OE) impersonal construction was subject to over a period of time, finally ending in its disappearance from the language. The analysis that he proposed, and that he worked out in greater detail in Jespersen (1927), has essentially been taken over by other linguists writing on the subject since then, the only difference lying in the type of explanat…
Gower's Tale of Florent and Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale
Fischer offers one of the most detailed comparisons of the two most frequently compared passages in Chaucer's and Gower's poems. She draws a general distinction between what she labels the baroque of WB and the classical style of Gower's Confessor, borrowing her terms from H.H. Meier. The former she describes as emotive, committed, excited and the latter as calm, detached, orderly; and she analyzes the specific stylistic features in which this ge…
The demise of the Old English impersonal construction
Jespersen (1894) was the first to attempt to provide an account of the changes that the Old English (OE) impersonal construction was subject to over a period of time, finally ending in its disappearance from the language. The analysis that he proposed, and that he worked out in greater detail in Jespersen (1927), has essentially been taken over by other linguists writing on the subject since then, the only difference lying in the type of explanat…
Gower's Tale of Florent and Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale
Fischer offers one of the most detailed comparisons of the two most frequently compared passages in Chaucer's and Gower's poems. She draws a general distinction between what she labels the baroque of WB and the classical style of Gower's Confessor, borrowing her terms from H.H. Meier. The former she describes as emotive, committed, excited and the latter as calm, detached, orderly; and she analyzes the specific stylistic features in which this ge…
Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Alliteration (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Converse (1 work) · Demise (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Law (1 work)