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Shi Shuo
Shi Shuo (On Teachers; 師說) is a classical Chinese essay by Han Yu written in 802, defining the teacher's role and criticizing Tang officials' reluctance to seek teachers.
Shield of Heracles
The Shield of Heracles (Greek: Aspis Hērakleous) is an archaic Greek epic poem of 480 hexameter lines, attributed to Hesiod in antiquity, recounting Heracles' killing of Cycnus and describing his shield, forged by Hephaestus.
Shield of Sparrows
Shield of Sparrows is Devney Perry's 2025 romantasy debut (Entangled Red Tower), first of a trilogy with Rites of the Starling and Seven and the Swift; princess Odessa Cross of Quentis is wed by treaty into monster-haunted Calandra.
Shier Lou
Shier Lou (Twelve Towers) is a 1658 collection of twelve vernacular Chinese stories by Li Yu, each organized around a tower that gives it its title.
Shigong An
Shigong An (施公案, Cases of Master Shi) is a Chinese novel of 1798 combining court-case and chivalric fiction, following judge Shi Shilun and the hero Huang Tianbao.
Shika Wakashū
Shika Wakashū (詞花和歌集), also read Shikashū, is the sixth Japanese imperial anthology of waka poetry, compiled by Fujiwara no Akisuke under Retired Emperor Sutoku and presented in 1151.
Shikhandi (शिखण्डी)
Shikhandi (शिखण्डी, Śikhaṇḍin) is the Mahabharata warrior, child of Drupada and rebirth of Amba, born female, transformed male by the yaksha Sthunakarna, and instrumental in Bhishma's fall at Kurukshetra.
Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie (可愛いだけじゃない式守さん)
Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie (可愛いだけじゃない式守さん, Kawaii dake ja nai Shikimori-san) is Keigo Maki's romantic comedy manga serialized on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket from 2019 to 2023 in 20 volumes, adapted into a 2022 Doga Kobo anime about unlucky Izumi and his cool-when-needed girlfriend Shikimori.
Shikwa
Shikwa (شکوہ, "The Complaint") is a long Urdu poem by Muhammad Iqbal, recited at Lahore in 1909, in which a Muslim asks God why the community is humiliated.
Shimazaki in the Land of Peace
Shimazaki in the Land of Peace (Heiwa no Kuni no Shimazaki e, 平和の国の島崎へ) is a Kodansha Morning manga by Gouten Hamada and Takeshi Seshimo about an ex-LEL terrorist operative returning to Japan; Manga Taisho 2024 4th-place and Saito Takao Award winner.
Shimoneta
Shimoneta (下ネタという概念が存在しない退屈な世界), also Shimoseka, is a 2012 Japanese satirical comedy light novel series by Hirotaka Akagi, adapted into a 12-episode 2015 J.C.STAFF anime about dirty-joke terrorists in a censored Japan.
Shin Chokusen Wakashū
Shin Chokusen Wakashū (新勅撰和歌集, New Imperial Collection) is a Japanese imperial anthology of waka poetry, ordered from Fujiwara no Teika in 1232 and completed in 1235.
Shin Sarugakuki
Shin Sarugakuki (新猿楽記) is a one-scroll kanbun work of the mid-Heian period, composed around 1058–1065 by Fujiwara no Akihira, that catalogs sarugaku entertainments and the trades of Heian Kyoto.
Shinbun shōsetsu
Shinbun shōsetsu (新聞小説, "newspaper novel") is a novel serialized in daily installments on a Japanese newspaper's pages, a form dating from the early Meiji period.
Shinchō Newcomer Award
The Shinchō Newcomer Award (新潮新人賞) is a Japanese open-submission literary prize for unpublished pure-literature fiction, run by the publisher Shinchosha through its magazine Shinchō since 1968 and serving as a debut gateway for prominent novelists.
Shino & Ren
Shino & Ren (志乃と恋, Shino to Ren) is a full-color yuri manga by Minori Chigusa, serialized since August 2023 by Kadokawa, about established couple Shino Saotome and Ren Shirayuki; distinct from the same author's Convenient Semi-Friend.
Shinobi Undercover
Shinobi Undercover (しのびごと, Shinobigoto) is a Weekly Shōnen Jump manga by Ippon Takegushi and Santa Mitarashi (the Candy Flurry duo), running since 2024 issue 42, about ninja Yodaka protecting high schooler Aoi Mukai undercover.
Shintaishi shō
Shintaishi shō (新体詩抄), an 1882 Japanese anthology of translated and original poetry compiled by three Imperial University instructors, is regarded as the starting point of Japanese modern poetry.
Ship of Fools (satire)
Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff), Sebastian Brant's 1494 Basel satire of 112 fools sailing to Narragonia, with Dürer woodcuts, Locher's 1497 Latin Stultifera navis, and translations into French, Dutch, and English by 1509.
Shipping ethics controversy in fanfiction
Shipping ethics controversy in fanfiction, also called pro-ship vs anti-ship discourse, is an online fandom dispute since the mid-2010s over taboo content (rape, incest, minors) in shipping fanfiction, pitting anti-shippers who police such content against pro-shippers opposing censorship, with documented harassment and AO3 governance debates.
Shira
Shira, the last unfinished novel of Hebrew writer S. Y. Agnon, follows a Jerusalem lecturer torn between his wife and a nurse, published posthumously in 1971.
Shiraz school (literature)
The Shiraz school (مکتب شیراز) is the lyric tradition of classical Persian poetry centered on Shiraz in the 13th and 14th centuries, defined by Saʿdi and Hafez.
Shirei ha-Hol
Shirei ha-Hol (שירי החול, "Songs of the Secular") is the collected secular Hebrew poetry of Solomon ibn Gabirol, an eleventh-century Andalusian Jewish poet and philosopher.
Shirei Tiferet
Shirei Tiferet (שירי תפארת, "Songs of Glory"), also known as the Moseide, is a Hebrew epic poem on the life of Moses by Haskalah poet Naphtali Herz Wessely, first published in Berlin in 1789.
Shirei Yehudah
Shirei Yehudah (שירי יהודה) is the collected Hebrew poetry of Yehuda Leib Gordon (Yalag), a central figure of the Jewish Enlightenment, first published in St. Petersburg in 1883–1884.
Shirishko Phool
Shirishko Phool (शिरीषको फूल, "The Shirish Flower"), published in English as Blue Mimosa, is a 1965 Nepali novel by Parijat, the first woman to win the Madan Puraskar.
Shirou Emiya (衛宮士郎)
Shirou Emiya (衛宮士郎) is the protagonist of Fate/stay night, an adopted survivor of the Fuyuki fire whose sword-specialized Projection magecraft and Reality Marble Unlimited Blade Works develop differently across the Fate, UBW, and Heaven's Feel routes.
Shishupala (शिशुपाल)
Shishupala (शिशुपाल) was the Chedi king of the Mahabharata, killed by Krishna with the Sudarshana chakra after his 100th insult at Yudhishthira's Rajasuya; the subject also of Magha's Sanskrit mahakavya Shishupalavadha.
Shishupala Vadha
Shishupala Vadha (शिशुपालवधम्, "the slaying of Shishupala") is a Sanskrit court epic by the poet Magha, retelling how Krishna killed the Chedi king Shishupala at Yudhishthira's Rajasuya sacrifice.
Shiva Tandava Stotra (शिवताण्डवस्तोत्रम्)
Shiva Tandava Stotra (शिवताण्डवस्तोत्रम्), also Shiv Tandav Stotram, is a rhythmically dense Sanskrit hymn praising Shiva's cosmic Tandava dance, traditionally attributed to Ravana via its own colophon, transmitted as an independent stotra outside the Ramayana and Puranas.