Doki Doki Literature Club! (DDLC) is a 2017 freeware visual novel developed by American independent game studio Team Salvato for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux.The game was initially distributed through itch.io, and later became available on Steam.The story is told from the perspective of a high school student who reluctantly joins the school's literature club on the …

Czech literature can refer to literature written in Czech, in the Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia, earlier the Lands of the Bohemian Crown), or by Czech people.. Most literature in the Czech Republic is now written in Czech, but historically, a considerable part of Czech literary output was written in other languages as well, including Latin and German

Văn Miếu (Vietnamese: Văn Miếu, Hán tự: 文廟) is a temple dedicated to Confucius in Hanoi, northern Vietnam.The temple also hosts the Imperial Academy (Quốc Tử Giám, 國 子 監), Vietnam's first national university.The temple was built in 1070 at the time of Emperor Lý Thánh Tông.It is one of several temples in Vietnam which is dedicated to Confucius, sages and …

Grey literature (or gray literature) is materials and research produced by organizations outside of the traditional commercial or academic publishing and distribution channels. Common grey literature publication types include reports (annual, research, technical, project, etc.), working papers, government documents, white papers and evaluations. ...

This is a list of notable works of dystopian literature. A dystopia is an unpleasant (typically repressive) society, often propagandized as being utopian. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction states that dystopian works depict a negative view of "the way the world is supposedly going in order to provide urgent propaganda for a change in direction."

Vernacular literature is literature written in the vernacular—the speech of the "common people".. In the European tradition, this effectively means literature not written in Latin nor Koine Greek.In this context, vernacular literature appeared during the Middle Ages at different periods in the various countries; the earliest European vernacular literatures are Irish literature (the earliest ...

Events. January – The Geração de Orpheu launch the short-lived magazine Orpheu, introducing literary modernism to Portugal.; January 13 – "Reminiscences of Sergeant Michael Cassidy", the first known story by Captain H. C. McNeile, Royal Engineers, writing as "Sapper", begins in the Daily Mail (London).; February 28 – Rupert Brooke sails with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary ...

Western fiction, the Western genre as featured in literature; Western music (North America), a type of American folk music; Music. Westerns, an EP by Pete Yorn; Business. The Western, a closed hotel/casino in Las Vegas, United States; Western Cartridge Company, a manufacturer of ammunition; Western Publishing, a defunct publishing company

Thriller is a genre of fiction, having numerous, often overlapping subgenres.Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving viewers heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. Successful examples of thrillers are the films of Alfred Hitchcock.. Thrillers generally keep the audience on the "edge of their seats" as …

Erotica and pornography. A distinction is often made between erotica and pornography (and the lesser-known genre of sexual entertainment, ribaldry), although some viewers may not distinguish between them.A key distinction, some have argued, is that pornography's objective is the graphic depiction of sexually explicit scenes.