Unhap, Misadventure, Infortune: Chaucer's Vocabulary of Mischance.

Author / Editor
Cooper, Helen.

Title
Unhap, Misadventure, Infortune: Chaucer's Vocabulary of Mischance.

Published
Critical Survey 29.3 (2017): 15-26.

Description
Considers Chaucer's extensive and subtle use of "the full vocabulary of 'chance' and 'mischance'." Shows how his use of privatives and negative prefixes with these words "inflect[s] his larger concerns with Fortune (usually personified as an agent) and the mutability of the world."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies