Author: Bruss, Elizabeth W.
Title: Beautiful Theories. The Spectacle of Discourse in Contemporary Criticism
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, (1982). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 23x15cm, vii, 519 pp. Minor rubbing & page-edge soil, VG,in a torn dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Suddenly, An Age of Theory: Theory of Literature Becomes Theory as Literature; Entrances to the Theoretical Text; The Creative Impasse: The Case of Gass & Sontag; The Critical Impasse: The Case of Bloom & Barthes.

Keywords: Literary theory, Criticism, William H. Gass, Susan Sontag, Harold Bloom, Roland Barthes, , ,