The waste land and The love song of J.alfredprufrock : A comparative approxination
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American Studies stands ont today as a major scholarly province, attracting —at the outset of the new millennium- multform
intellectual, academic, and even strategic interests both within the United States and without. The present paper attempts to explore this rather magnetic arena within the oveail context of the on-going debate between, on the one hand, those who see the world’s return to inultipolarity as imminent, entailing therefore the corrosion of America ‘s global supremacy ; and, on the other, those who see its current dffïculties as flot more than “pathologies” of an unprecedentedly impressive trajectory.