The Solipsist's Search for Coherence in Modern Culture: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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2003-09-01

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Birlik, Nurten

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N. Birlik, “The Solipsist’s Search for Coherence in Modern Culture: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”,” presented at the 24th Meeting of the TS Eliot Society, 2003, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/89169.