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International Prize for Arabic Fiction
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (الجائزة العالمية للرواية العربية), often called the "Arabic Booker", is an annual prize for the best Arabic novel, launched in Abu Dhabi in 2007.
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri's 1999 Houghton Mifflin debut story collection of nine Bengali diaspora stories, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the New Yorker Prize for Best First Book.
Interspecies Reviewers (異種族レビュアーズ)
Interspecies Reviewers (異種族レビュアーズ, Ishuzoku Reviewers) is a 2016 fantasy sex-comedy manga by Amahara and masha about adventurers reviewing brothels of different species; its 2020 Passione anime was pulled by Funimation and Japanese TV stations for explicitness.
Intertextuality
Intertextuality is a literary theory concept coined by Julia Kristeva in 1966 from Bakhtin's dialogism: every text is a mosaic of quotations, meaning through relations to prior texts, discourses, and culture.
Interview with the Vampire
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's 1976 Gothic horror novel, first of the Vampire Chronicles: Louis de Pointe du Lac's confession of his first two hundred years as a vampire, told to a young interviewer in San Francisco.
Into Thin Air
Into Thin Air (1997) is Jon Krakauer's firsthand account of the May 1996 Mount Everest disaster, which killed eight climbers including guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer; it grew from his Outside magazine assignment and sparked the Boukreev controversy answered in The Climb.
Introduction (writing)
Introduction (writing): the opening section of essays and research papers stating topic, context, thesis, and structure; covers the funnel model, Swales' CARS moves, typical length, and common pitfalls.
Inu Tsukuba-shū
Inu Tsukuba-shū (犬筑波集) is a Japanese haikai renga anthology compiled by Yamazaki Sōkan around 1530, credited with helping comic linked verse break from orthodox renga.
Invaders of the Rokujouma!? (六畳間の侵略者!?)
Invaders of the Rokujouma!? (六畳間の侵略者!?) is a Japanese light novel series by Takehaya and Poco, HJ Bunko, since 2009, about Koutarou Satomi defending cheap room 106 from a ghost, magical girl, subterranean, and alien princess; 12-episode 2014 anime by Silver Link.
Invasion literature
Invasion literature was a genre of British fiction, from 1871 to 1914, depicting imagined invasions of Britain by hostile foreign powers, beginning with The Battle of Dorking.
Invenção de Orfeu
Invenção de Orfeu is a 1952 epic-lyric poem in ten cantos by the Brazilian modernist poet Jorge de Lima, published a year before his death and treated as the culmination of his career.
Investiture of the Gods (封神演义)
Investiture of the Gods, also called Fengshen Yanyi, is a Ming dynasty Chinese novel in which Jiang Ziya appoints 365 gods after the fall of the Shang.
Invictus
Invictus is William Ernest Henley's 1875 Victorian poem, written in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, published untitled in 1888 and titled by Quiller-Couch in 1900; famous for "master of my fate" and its link to Nelson Mandela.
Invincible (comics)
Invincible (comics): Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley's creator-owned Image Comics superhero series (2003-2018, 144 issues) about Mark Grayson, son of Omni-Man; adapted as the Prime Video animated series.
Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities (Le città invisibili), Italo Calvino's 1972 Einaudi novel of 55 imaginary cities Marco Polo describes to Kublai Khan; William Weaver translated it in 1974; structured in nine chapters and eleven thematic categories.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's 1952 Random House novel, follows a nameless Black narrator from a Southern college through the Brotherhood in Harlem to an underground lair; it won the 1953 National Book Award for Fiction.
Invisible Monsters
Invisible Monsters, a 1999 novel by Chuck Palahniuk, also issued as Invisible Monsters Remix (2012), follows a disfigured fashion model on a revenge road trip; written first but published after Fight Club.
Invitation to a Beheading
Invitation to a Beheading (Приглашение на казнь) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov about a teacher sentenced to death, written in 1934 and published in 1938.
Invocation of the Great Bear
Invocation of the Great Bear (Anrufung des Großen Bären) is a 1956 poetry collection by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann, her second and final volume, published by Piper in Munich.
Ioannis Makriyannis
Ioannis Makriyannis (Ιωάννης Μακρυγιάννης; born Ioannis Triantafyllou, ca. 1797–1864) was a Greek merchant and officer who fought in the War of Independence and wrote celebrated Memoirs.
Iohannis
The Iohannis is an eight-book Latin epic by the sixth-century African poet Corippus, honoring the Byzantine general John Troglita and his campaigns against the Moors of North Africa.
Iphigenia in Aulis
Iphigenia in Aulis (Ἰφιγένεια ἡ ἐν Αὐλίδι) is a Greek tragedy by Euripides dramatizing the sacrifice of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon, demanded by Artemis at Aulis.
Iphigenia in Tauris
Iphigenia in Tauris is a tragedy by Euripides, first performed in Athens around 412 BCE, dramatizing how Iphigenia and Orestes escape the Taurians with a statue of Artemis.
Iracema
Iracema (Lenda do Ceará) is an 1865 novel by the Brazilian writer José de Alencar, telling of love between an indigenous woman and a Portuguese colonist in early seventeenth-century Ceará.
Iraiyanar Akapporul
Iraiyanar Akapporul, also known as the Kalaviyal, is a Tamil treatise of sixty sūtras on akam love poetics, traditionally attributed to the god Śiva and probably from the fifth or sixth century.
Iraqi exile literature
Iraqi exile literature is the body of poetry, fiction, memoir, and criticism written by Iraqi writers abroad, especially after waves of expulsion beginning with the 1963 coup.
Iraqi novel
The Iraqi novel (الرواية العراقية) is the tradition of long-form Arabic fiction by Iraqi writers, maturing into social realism in the 1950s and booming after 2003.
Iraqi style
The Iraqi style (sabk-e ʿIrāqi, سبک عراقی) is a major stylistic period of classical Persian poetry, current from the twelfth to the fifteenth century and known for its lyrical ghazals.
Irás y no volverás
Irás y no volverás, Spanish for "You will go and not return," is a 1973 poetry collection by Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco, his fourth book of poems.
Iravan
Iravan (Aravan, அரவான்), also Koothandavar, is a Mahabharata figure, son of Arjuna and Ulupi, worshipped by Tamil transgender Aravani communities; his marriage and sacrifice are reenacted yearly at the 18-day Koovagam festival in Villupuram, Tamil Nadu.