A Comparative Study of Supplement and Contrapuntal Reading
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2007
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Department of English
Abstract
This research attempts to compare "supplement" and "contrapuntal reading". These
toolsreveal the marginalized andtherebycounter the centre. However, the most
significant difference between them is that the former is bound within textual space
whereas the later takes any textas a form ofcultural discourseand locates it in
context. Besides,the former establishes the playbysubverting hierarchy whereas the
perspective ofalterity remains in the later. Application of supplement in Conrad's
Heart of Darknessrevealsthatthe theme of "exploration oftheself"andsupplements
to the"exploration of the evil" whereas readingofthe same text contrapuntallyshows
it as purely colonial though theearliercriticssawitas anti-colonial.
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Orientalism, contrapuntal Reading