10,807 articles
Sarbahara
Sarbahara (সর্বহারা, "The Proletariat") is a 1926 poetry collection by the Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, giving its name to the most socialist phase of his verse.
Sarbohara
Sarbohara (সর্বহারা, also Sarbahara) is a Bengali word meaning the proletariat, best known as a 1926 poetry collection by Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladesh's national poet.
Sare Jahan se Accha (سارے جہاں سے اچھا)
Sare Jahan se Accha, formally Tarana-e-Hindi, is an Urdu patriotic song written by Muhammad Iqbal in 1904 that became a rallying cry against British rule.
Sargento Getúlio
Sargento Getúlio is a 1971 novel by the Brazilian writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro, told as a sergeant's interior monologue while transporting a political prisoner across Sergipe.
Sariputraprakarana
Sariputraprakarana, also called Shariputraprakarana, is a nine-act Sanskrit Buddhist drama by Ashvaghosha, from about the second century CE, dramatizing the conversion of the Buddha's chief disciples Shariputra and Maudgalyayana.
Sariqa
Sariqa is the classical Arabic critical term for a poet's taking of meaning, wording, or imagery from another poet and presenting it as his own.
Sarngadharapaddhati
The Sarngadharapaddhati (Sanskrit: Sharngadharapaddhati) is a Sanskrit anthology of 4,689 short poems compiled by Sarngadhara in 1363, citing over 300 authors and covering ethics, yoga, and archery.
Saroj Smriti
Saroj Smriti (सरोज स्मृति), "In Memory of Saroj", is a long 1935 Hindi elegy by the Chhayavad poet Nirala, mourning his daughter Saroj and considered Hindi's finest elegy.
Sartor Resartus
Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle's satirical philosophical novel, serialised from 1833 to 1834, which presents a German treatise on clothes and argues that all visible things are emblems of spirit.
Saruman
Saruman the White (Curunír) is Tolkien's traitor wizard in The Lord of the Rings: first of the Istari, head of the White Council, corrupted via the palantír of Orthanc, killed by Wormtongue as Sharkey.
Sarumino
Sarumino (猿蓑, "Monkey's Raincoat") is a Japanese haikai poetry anthology published in Kyoto in 1691, compiled by Mukai Kyorai and Nozawa Bonchō under Matsuo Bashō's supervision.
Sarvajna's Tripadis
Sarvajna's Tripadis (ಸರ್ವಜ್ಞನ ತ್ರಿಪದಿಗಳು) are roughly 2,000 three-line Kannada wisdom verses in the tripadi meter attributed to Sarvajna, the sixteenth-century wandering poet-philosopher known as the people's poet.
Sasadavata
Sasadavata (සසඳාවත) is a classical Sinhala ornate narrative poem retelling the Sasa Jataka, the Bodhisattva's birth as a hare, and among the earliest works of Sinhala court poetry.
Sasamegoto
Sasamegoto (ささめごと, "Murmured Conversations") is a two-volume Japanese treatise on linked poetry (renga) and waka written by the poet-monk Shinkei in 1463–1464, ranking with Zeami's works as medieval Japan's most important poetic criticism.
Sassi Punnun
Sassi Punnun (Sindhi: سسئي پنهونءَ) is a Sindhi folk romance about Sassi, who searches for Punnun, the prince of Kech Makran carried off by his brothers.
Sassui Punhun
Sassui Punhun (سسئي پنهون) is a tragic folktale of Sindh, Balochistan, and the Punjab about a washerman's daughter and a prince whose marriage is broken by his kinsmen.
Sastra Populer Indonesia
Sastra Populer Indonesia is Indonesian popular literature, written in simple language about everyday life and read by a mass audience for entertainment rather than aesthetic study.
Satan in Goray
Satan in Goray (Yiddish: Der Sotn in Goray) is the first novel of Isaac Bashevis Singer, a historical novel set in 1666 amid the Sabbatai Zevi messianic movement.
Satire
Satire: a humorous, critical literary mode attacking real, specific targets using irony, exaggeration, and ridicule. Named from Latin satura; classified first in Rome; three kinds, Horatian, Juvenalian, Menippean.
Satires (Juvenal)
The Satires (Saturae) of Juvenal, sixteen hexameter poems in five books written in the early second century CE, attack Roman corruption with indignatio; famous for Satires 3, 6, and 10, phrases like "bread and circuses," and imitations by Johnson and Dryden.
Satirical novel
A satirical novel is a full-length work of fiction using humor, irony, and ridicule to expose social follies and political abuses, defined in China by Wu Jingzi's eighteenth-century The Scholars.
Satura
Satura is the fourth poetry collection by Italian poet Eugenio Montale, published by Mondadori in 1971, including the elegiac Xenia poems for his wife Drusilla Tanzi.
Saturae Menippeae
Varronian satire, called Menippean Satires by its author Marcus Terentius Varro, was about 150 books of prose-and-verse Latin satire on morality and philosophy, surviving only in fragments.
Saturnin
Saturnin is a humorous 1942 novel by the Czech writer Zdeněk Jirotka, narrated by a young Prague gentleman whose placid life is overturned by his new valet.
Satyaki
Satyaki (Sātyaki, सात्यकि), also Yuyudhana, a Vrishni Yadava warrior of the Mahabharata: Arjuna's pupil, Krishna's companion, Pandava commander, slayer of Bhurisravas on the war's 14th day, and later killed in the Yadava brawl at Prabhasa.
Satyavati (सत्यवती)
Satyavati (सत्यवती), also Matsyagandha and Yojanagandha, is the Mahabharata's fisherwoman-turned-queen of Hastinapur: wife of Shantanu, mother of Vyasa by Parashara, and matriarch whose niyoga arrangement produced the Kauravas' and Pandavas' fathers.
Satyricon
The Satyricon, also called the Satyrica, is a fragmentary Latin novel attributed to Petronius, Nero's arbiter elegantiae, following the rogue Encolpius through comic episodes around the Bay of Naples.
Saubhadra
Saubhadra (Sanskrit: सौभद्र) is a patronymic meaning "son of Subhadra" that refers to Abhimanyu, son of the Pandava hero Arjuna and Subhadra in the Mahabharata.
Saundarananda
Saundarananda (सौन्दरनन्दम्) is a Sanskrit court epic by the Buddhist poet Aśvaghoṣa, from the first or second century CE, telling how the Buddha converted his half-brother Nanda to monastic life.
Saurashtra ni Rasdhar
Saurashtra ni Rasdhar (સૌરાષ્ટ્રની રસધાર) is a five-part anthology of Gujarati folk tales collected and edited by Jhaverchand Meghani and published between 1923 and 1927.