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Chân quê
"Chân quê" is a 1936 Vietnamese poem by Nguyễn Bính, written in lục bát meter about a village youth dismayed by his sweetheart's new town clothes.
Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai
Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai (चाँद का मुँह टेढ़ा है; "The Moon's Face Is Crooked") is a Hindi poetry collection by Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh, published posthumously in 1964.
Chandakausika
Chandakausika (चण्डकौशिकम्, "The Fierce Kauśika") is a Sanskrit drama in five acts by Kṣemīśvara, a tenth-century court poet at Kanauj, dramatizing the Hariścandra legend as told in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, one of his two extant plays.
Chandalabhikshuki
Chandalabhikshuki (ചണ്ഡാലഭിക്ഷുകി) is a 1922 Malayalam narrative poem by N. Kumaran Asan, telling of a Buddhist monk who takes water from an untouchable girl and of her conversion to Buddhism.
Chandayan
Chandayan (चंदायन) is a Sufi narrative poem in Awadhi composed by Mulla Daud around 1379, retelling the love story of Lorik and Chanda and beginning Hindi's premakhyan tradition.
Chandi Purana
Chandi Purana (ଚଣ୍ଡୀ ପୁରାଣ) is a 15th-century Odia epic poem by Sarala Das that retells the goddess Durga's war against the buffalo demon Mahishasura and helped begin classical Odia literature.
Chandimangal
Chandimangal (চণ্ডীমঙ্গল) is a Bengali mangal kavya, a narrative poem about the goddess Chandi establishing her cult, composed by Mukundaram Chakravarti in sixteenth-century West Bengal and valued for its picture of rural Bengal.
Chandrabati Ramayana
The Chandrabati Ramayana (চন্দ্রাবতীর রামায়ণ) is a sixteenth-century Bengali retelling of the Rama story from Sita's viewpoint, composed by Chandrabati, the first Bengali woman poet, in Mymensingh.
Changdev Pasashti
Changdev Pasashti (चांगदेव पासष्टी) is a short philosophical poem of 65 verses in Old Marathi, composed by the saint-poet Dnyaneshwar as spiritual instruction to the hatha yogi Changdev.
Changes: A Love Story
Changes: A Love Story is a 1991 novel by Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo, following Esi Sekyi as she leaves her marriage for a polygamous one.
Changsheng Dian
Changsheng Dian (長生殿), translated as The Palace of Eternal Life, is a 50-scene chuanqi play by the Qing playwright Hong Sheng, completed in 1688, retelling the love of Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei.
Chani (character)
Chani (Chani Kynes) is the Fremen warrior daughter of Liet-Kynes and Paul Atreides' partner in Frank Herbert's Dune novels; she dies bearing the twins Leto II and Ghanima, and is played by Sean Young, Barbara Kodetová, and Zendaya.
Chanson d'automne
"Chanson d'automne" ("Song of Autumn") is an 1866 poem by Paul Verlaine, best known for its opening lines, "Les sanglots longs / Des violons / De l'automne."
Chanson de geste
A chanson de geste is an Old French epic poem of the 11th to 13th centuries celebrating the exploits of heroes, most famously the Chanson de Roland.
Chanson de Guillaume
The Chanson de Guillaume, also known as La Chançun de Willame, is an Old French chanson de geste of the Guillaume d'Orange cycle, dating from the first half of the 12th century.
Chanson de la croisade albigeoise
The Chanson de la croisade albigeoise, also called the Canso de la crozada, is an Old Occitan verse chronicle of the Albigensian Crusade of 1209 to 1229.
Chants d'ombre
Chants d'ombre (Shadow Songs) is the first poetry collection of Léopold Sédar Senghor, published in Paris in 1945, gathering poems written during his years of exile in France.
Chao Cuo Lun
Chao Cuo Lun (晁错论, "On Chao Cuo") is an essay by Song writer Su Shi arguing that Han statesman Chao Cuo caused his own 154 BC execution.
Chaos Walking
Chaos Walking is Patrick Ness's YA science fiction trilogy (The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, Monsters of Men, 2008-2010) set on New World, where the Noise broadcasts men's thoughts; Carnegie Medal winner, adapted into a 2021 film flop.
Chapayev and Void
Chapayev and Void (Чапаев и Пустота) is a 1996 novel by the Russian writer Victor Pelevin, published in English as Buddha's Little Finger and Clay Machine Gun.
Chapbook
Chapbook: small, cheap paper-covered booklet sold for a penny by itinerant peddlers (chapmen) from the 16th to early 19th centuries; also the modern short poetry booklet of 20-30 pages.
Character (arts)
Character (arts): the person-like being of narrative, also called fictional character or literary character. Covers Aristotle, Forster's flat/round distinction, structuralist actants, and modern network and cognitive approaches.
Characterization
Characterization is the literary process of constructing a character in narrative, also called character presentation. It works through direct statement of traits or indirect cues (speech, action, thought, appearance) from which readers infer qualities; Aristotle ranked it below plot, and it became central with the 19th-century realist novel.
Characters
Characters is a book of satirical moral portraits by French writer Jean de La Bruyère, first published in Paris in 1688 and enlarged through nine editions.
Characters in Romeo and Juliet
Characters in Romeo and Juliet: the cast of Shakespeare's tragedy, divided between the Montagues (Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio), the Capulets (Juliet, Tybalt, the Nurse, Paris), and Friar Laurence and Prince Escalus.
Characters of Peter Pan
Characters of Peter Pan: J.M. Barrie's cast from The Little White Bird (1902), the 1904 play, and Peter and Wendy (1911), including Peter, Wendy Darling, Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, the Lost Boys, Nana, and Tiger Lily.
Charand Parand
Charand Parand (چرند و پرند, "fiddle-faddle") is a series of satirical pieces of social and political criticism by Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, published in Sur-e Esrafil during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution.
Chariots of the Gods?
Chariots of the Gods? (Erinnerungen an die Zukunft), Erich von Däniken's 1968 ancient-astronaut bestseller claiming aliens built ancient monuments; over 7 million English copies sold, rejected by science, spawned Ancient Aliens.
Charit Puthi
Charit Puthi (চৰিত পুথি), also spelled Carita Puthi, is an Assamese hagiographical manuscript recording the lives of Neo-Vaishnavite saints, written from the late sixteenth century and containing the earliest Assamese prose.
Charitha Thunak
Charitha Thunak (චරිත තුනක්, "Three Characters") is a 1963 Sinhala novel by the Sri Lankan writer K. Jayatilaka, which won the State Literary Award for the best novel of that year.