On some trends of contemporary T.S.Eliot studies: discussion on anti-semitism

The paper deals with the main trends in contemporary T.S.Eliot studies in the West. The author analyses the reasons of a lowering reputation of Eliot in postmodern cultural continuum. The research attention focuses on the discussion having a great response, the problem of anti-Semitic/philo-Semitic issues in Eliot's writings (mainly based on A.Julius's «T.S.Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form» and R.Schuchard's «Burbank with a Baedeker, Eliot with a Cigar. American Intellectuals, Anti-Semitism, and the Idea of Culture»).