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Consumable Texts in Contemporary India : Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology / by S. Gupta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gupta, S., Author.
- Series:
- New Directions in Book History, 2634-6125
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Asia.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Oriental literature.
- Asia--Languages.
- Asia.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Asian Culture.
- Asian Literature.
- Asian Languages.
- Sociology of Culture.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Local Subjects:
- Asian Culture.
- Asian Literature.
- Asian Languages.
- Sociology of Culture.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context - their productions, circulations and readerships - to understand current social trends.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Keywords and Preliminaries; Appropriate terms; Provocation to academia; Books as social symptoms; 2 Indian Commercial Fiction in English; Commercial and literary; Local/global; Middle-class youth; 3 Indian Vernacular Pulp Fiction in English Translation; Indian Translation Studies and English; The habitual English reader's view; The Hindi commentators' view; Back to translation studies; 4 On the Indian Readers of Hitler's Mein Kampf; Circulations; Who reads it and why?; Leadership and youth; A bigger picture; Ideological coherence
- 5 Framing Group Discussion GuidebooksJobseekers and students for business; What happens in Group Discussion; 6 Low-End Group Discussion Guidebooks and Kunjis; High-end and low-end; The pressure of English; The quasi-encyclopaedic function; Production of failure?; 7 Approaching Public Sector "Value Education" Publications; The form of scholarly texts; International and national contexts; Public sector publishing; 8 Mapping Public Sector "Value Education" Publications; Self-reporting publications: Government policy; Esoteric and mystical texts; Supporting publications: Textbooks and academic
- Books that ought to exist but don't9 Rules of Bibliographical Sociology's Method; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349504183
- 1349504181
- 9781137489296
- 1137489294
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