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Detente, sombra de mi bien esquivo
"Detente, sombra de mi bien esquivo" is a 1689 love sonnet by the Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, first published in Inundación castálida.
Detvan
Detvan is a lyrical-epic poem by the Slovak Romantic poet Andrej Sládkovič, written in 1845 and published in 1853, celebrating the strength and morality of the Slovak people.
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Award) is a state-funded German prize for children's and young adult literature, awarded annually since 1956 with a total endowment of 72,000 euros.
Devdas
Devdas (দেবদাস), also Devdās, is Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1917 Bengali tragic-romance novella about a self-destructive lover. Written circa 1901 in Bhagalpur, serialized in Bharatvarsa, it became South Asia's most-filmed non-epic story, notably via Bimal Roy's 1955 and Bhansali's 2002 Hindi films.
Devi Chaudhurani
Devi Chaudhurani (দেবী চৌধুরাণী) is an 1884 Bengali novel by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in which the outcast Brahmin woman Prafulla becomes a bandit leader fighting British rule in Bengal.
Devil in Ohio
Devil in Ohio is a 2022 American cult-thriller limited series created by Daria Polatin for Netflix, adapted from her own novel and starring Emily Deschanel.
Devil on the Cross
Devil on the Cross (Caitaani Mũtharaba-inĩ) is a 1982 novel by the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, his own English translation of the first novel he wrote in Gĩkũyũ.
Dew on the Shallot
Dew on the Shallot (薤露, Xielu) is one of the two earliest surviving Han dynasty yuefu elegies, a funeral song likening human life to quickly dried dew.
Dharmamangal
Dharmamangal (ধর্মমঙ্গল) is a Bengali mangal-kavya cycle of praise poems for the folk deity Dharma Thakur, written by over twenty poets in western Bengal from the mid-1600s into the 1800s and telling of the hero Lausen.
Dharmamrita
Dharmamrita (Kannada: ಧರ್ಮಾಮೃತ, Sanskrit Dharmamritam, "the nectar of dharma") is a 12th-century Kannada Jain didactic work by the Digambara monk Nayasena, composed in 1112 CE at Mulugunda in present-day Karnataka.
Dharmapuranam
Dharmapuranam (ധർമ്മപുരാണം), translated by its author as The Saga of Dharmapuri, is a Malayalam political satire novel by O. V. Vijayan, written in 1975 and seen as a response to the Indian Emergency.
Dhola Maru
Dhola Maru (ढोला मारू रा दूहा) is a Rajasthani love ballad about the prince Dhola and his bride Maru, composed in western Rajasthan in the 11th century.
Dhrishtadyumna (धृष्टद्युम्न)
Dhrishtadyumna (धृष्टद्युम्न, Dhṛṣṭadyumna), also called Droṇahantā, is the Mahabharata prince of Panchala, twin brother of Draupadi, born from a sacrificial fire to kill Drona, whom he beheaded as Pandava commander-in-chief before being killed by Ashvatthama.
Dhritarashtra
Dhritarashtra (धृतराष्ट्र, Dhṛtarāṣṭra) is the blind king of Hastinapura in the Mahabharata, father of the hundred Kauravas by Gandhari, denied the throne for blindness, and the addressee of Sanjaya's narration of the Bhagavad Gita.
Dhvanyaloka-locana
Dhvanyaloka-locana is the traditional pairing of two Sanskrit works on poetics: Anandavardhana's ninth-century Dhvanyaloka, which made suggestion the soul of poetry, and Abhinavagupta's Locana commentary.
Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah
Di Bawah Lindungan Ka'bah is a 1938 Indonesian novel by Hamka, telling of Hamid, a poor Minangkabau Muslim whose love for Zainab is blocked by social class.
Đi đường
"Đi đường" (Tẩu lộ) is a classical Chinese quatrain by Hồ Chí Minh, poem 30 in Prison Diary, written during his 1942 to 1943 imprisonment in Guangxi.
Diabolik Lovers (ディアボリックラヴァーズ)
Diabolik Lovers (ディアボリックラヴァーズ) is a Rejet and Otomate media mix franchise of otome games, drama CDs, and anime about heroine Yui Komori and sadistic vampire brothers, beginning as a 2011 situation CD with the first game in 2012.
Diagon Alley
Diagon Alley is the fictional wizarding shopping street behind the Leaky Cauldron in London in Harry Potter, home to Gringotts bank and Ollivanders, entered by tapping a brick; recreated at Universal Studios Florida (opened July 8, 2014) and as a Leavesden film set.
Dialogue (Bakhtin)
Dialogue (Bakhtin), or dialogism, is Mikhail Bakhtin's concept that every utterance responds to past discourse and anticipates an answer, developed with Voloshinov's 1929 Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, linked to heteroglossia and polyphony, and distinct from everyday conversation.
Dian yang Tak Kunjung Padam
Dian yang Tak Kunjung Padam is a 1932 Indonesian novel by Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, published by Balai Pustaka, telling of a poor villager's failed love for a wealthy young woman.
Dianlun Lunwen
Dianlun Lunwen (典論·論文, "A Discourse on Literature") is an essay by Cao Pi, founder of the Wei dynasty, generally counted the first work of literary criticism in Chinese literature.
Diao Gu Zhan Wen
Diao Gu Zhan Wen (吊古战场文, "On Mourning the Ancient Battlefield") is a prose eulogy by the Tang writer Li Hua, composed in 752 after he inspected the Shuofang frontier.
Diario d'Algeria
Diario d'Algeria is the second poetry collection by the Italian poet Vittorio Sereni, published in Florence in 1947 from his experience of war and imprisonment in North Africa between 1942 and 1945.
Diary
Diary: a chronological record of personal experiences, thoughts, or feelings kept daily or at frequent intervals. Also covers diary versus memoir and journal, the genre's literary history from Pepys to 1887, and diary methods in research.
Diary (novel)
Diary is a 2003 novel by Chuck Palahniuk, a modern horror story with dark humor, written as a diary by Misty Wilmot, a waitress on Waytansea Island.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is Jeff Kinney's illustrated children's series about middle schooler Greg Heffley, begun on Funbrain in 2004, first published by Amulet/Abrams in 2007, with 20 books, 300 million copies sold, and film, Disney+, and musical adaptations.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down, book 11 of Jeff Kinney's series, published November 1, 2016 by Amulet Books. Halloween-themed story in which Greg Heffley, pushed by his mom to be creative, makes a gummy-worm horror movie.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hot Mess, book 19 of Jeff Kinney's series, released October 22, 2024 by Amulet Books; Greg Heffley's extended family crowds a beach house while Gramma's meatball secret unfolds.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer is book 18 of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, published October 24, 2023 by Amulet Books. Greg Heffley tries to save Larry Mack Middle School from closure amid budget cuts, school ads, and book bans.