The Art of the Cantebury Tales Author:Paul G Rugglers The peculiar excitement of Chaucer criticism at the present time springs from its fundamental often passionately debated re-examination of Chaucer's whole art, from cultural context to unique achievement. Paul Ruggiers' study of the Canterbury Tales occupies a distinguished, if controversial , place in this basic reassessment. Here is a compreh... more »ensive argument for a unity discernible not only in the clearly marked beginnings and ending of the tales, but also in the fragmented, often puzzling middle. Mr Ruggiers' reasoning to a coherent structure in the apparently formless and "encyclopaedic" character of the work challenges the attention of the most expert Chaucerian.« less