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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays is a 1986 English collection of six essays by Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin, including his foundational essay on speech genres.
Spenser (character)
Spenser is the unnamed Boston private eye created by Robert B. Parker in The Godwulf Manuscript, star of 40-plus hard-boiled novels, companioned by Susan Silverman and Hawk, and adapted for TV and film.
Spice and Wolf (狼と香辛料)
Spice and Wolf (狼と香辛料), by Isuna Hasekura, is an economic fantasy light novel about merchant Kraft Lawrence traveling with the wolf deity Holo; debut 2006 Dengeki Bunko, 2024 anime remake, 2027 second season.
Spider (pulp fiction character)
The Spider is Richard Wentworth, hero of the Popular Publications pulp magazine The Spider (118 issues, October 1933 to December 1943), mainly written by Norvell Page as Grant Stockbridge; a violent Shadow competitor who branded crimson spider seals on criminals, adapted to 1938 and 1941 Columbia serials.
Spider-Gwen
Spider-Gwen, also Ghost-Spider, is Marvel's alternate-universe Gwen Stacy of Earth-65, bitten by the radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker. Created by Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez in Edge of Spider-Verse #2 (2014), she starred in Spider-Gwen (2015) and the Spider-Verse films voiced by Hailee Steinfeld.
Spider-Man collected editions
Spider-Man collected editions are Marvel's trade paperback, hardcover, and omnibus reprints of Spider-Man comics, spanning Omnibus, Marvel Masterworks, Epic Collections, and Essentials formats covering Amazing Spider-Man from 1962 onward.
Spider-Man: Octo-Girl
Spider-Man: Octo-Girl (スパイダーマン：オクトパスガール) is a Shonen Jump+ manga by Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court in which Doctor Octopus's mind lands in Tokyo schoolgirl Otoha Okutamiya; four volumes, 2023–2025, English via VIZ.
Spider-Man: One More Day
Spider-Man: One More Day is Marvel's 2007 four-issue storyline by J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada in which Peter Parker and Mary Jane trade their marriage to Mephisto to save Aunt May, erasing two decades of continuity and launching Brand New Day.
Spider-Verse
Spider-Verse, 2014–2015 Marvel Comics crossover by Dan Slott, Olivier Coipel, and Giuseppe Camuncoli, follows the Inheritors of Loomworld hunting spider-characters across the Multiverse; sequels Spider-Geddon (2018) and End of the Spider-Verse (2022–23) followed.
Spinning Gears
Spinning Gears (歯車, Haguruma) is a short story by the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, written in 1927 and published posthumously in Bungei Shunjū, describing a writer's breakdown through visions of translucent gears.
Spirits Rebellious
Spirits Rebellious (Arabic: الأرواح المتمردة) is a 1908 collection of four symbolic stories by Lebanese-American writer Kahlil Gibran attacking forced marriage, feudal tyranny, and religious corruption.
Spiritual Canticle
The Spiritual Canticle (Cántico espiritual) is a 40-stanza mystical poem by the Spanish Carmelite St John of the Cross describing the soul's search for Christ the Bridegroom.
Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Splinter is the mutant rat sensei and adoptive father of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, debuting in TMNT #1 (May 1984). Origins vary: Hamato Yoshi's pet rat (Mirage) versus mutated Hamato Yoshi (1987 cartoon); IDW makes him Yoshi's reincarnation.
Spoken word
Spoken word is performance poetry rooted in oral traditions, characterized by rhyme and improvisation. It often addresses social justice and began with slam contests in Chicago in 1986.
Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology is a 1915 poetry collection by Edgar Lee Masters in which deceased residents of a fictional Illinois town speak their own epitaphs.
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (SI Swimsuit): annual swimwear edition of Sports Illustrated since January 1964, first cover Babette March; best-seller was 1989 Kathy Ireland 25th-anniversary issue; known for cover-model prestige, objectification criticism, and Pay With Change ad policy.
Sprachgitter
Sprachgitter ("language grille") is a 1959 German-language poetry collection by Paul Celan, his third book, containing 33 poems including Stimmen, Tenebrae, and Engführung, and marking a turn toward compression.
Spring and All
Spring and All is a 1923 book by American poet William Carlos Williams that alternates 27 poems, including "The Red Wheelbarrow," with prose setting out his poetic theories.
Spring Dawn
Spring Dawn (春晓, Chun Xiao) is a four-line quatrain by Tang dynasty poet Meng Haoran, describing waking on a spring morning to birdsong and fallen blossoms.
Spring River in the Flower Moon Night
Spring River in the Flower Moon Night (春江花月夜) is a 36-line Tang poem by Zhang Ruoxu describing a moonlit river, from scenery to separated lovers' longing.
Spring Silkworms
Spring Silkworms (春蚕) is a 1932 short story by Mao Dun, which follows a farmer's family facing ruin after their record silk cocoon harvest is rejected.
Spring View
Spring View (春望) is a five-character regulated verse by the Tang dynasty poet Du Fu, written in 757 in rebel-occupied Chang'an and considered his most famous poem.
Spring, Spring
Spring, Spring (봄봄) is a short story by the Korean writer Kim Yu-jeong, published in 1935, about a son-in-law who works unpaid for over three years while his prospective father-in-law delays the wedding.
Spy fiction
Spy fiction (espionage fiction): a fiction genre whose central character engages in espionage, from Cooper's The Spy (1821) and the Edwardian boom to le Carré's spy realism versus Fleming's Bond romance.
Spycatcher
Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, 1987 memoir by ex-MI5 officer Peter Wright with Paul Greengrass. Thatcher's government tried to ban it; published in Australia and the US, it sold about 2 million copies and reshaped British secrecy law.
Squadron Supreme
Squadron Supreme is Marvel Comics' Justice League analogue team from parallel Earth-712, created by Roy Thomas in Avengers #85 (1971), best known for Mark Gruenwald's 1985 series in which the heroes take over the United States.
Squealer (Animal Farm)
Squealer is the propaganda chief pig in George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945), Napoleon's spokesperson who justifies pig privilege, rewrites the Seven Commandments, scapegoats Snowball, and allegorically represents the Soviet press and Pravda under Stalin.
Squee!
Squee! is a black-and-white comic series by Jhonen Vasquez, published 1997–1998. It follows Todd Casil, a bullied boy living next door to the serial killer Johnny C.
Sri Gur Panth Prakash
Sri Gur Panth Prakash (ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰ ਪੰਥ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼) is a poetic narrative history of the Sikhs by Rattan Singh Bhangu, retitled Prachin Panth Prakash when published in 1914.
Sri Kalahastiswara Satakamu
Kalahastiswara Satakamu (శ్రీకాళహస్తీశ్వర శతకము) is a Telugu devotional sataka of over a hundred verses addressed to the Shiva of Srikalahasti in Andhra Pradesh, attributed to the 16th-century poet Dhurjati of Krishnadevaraya's court.