Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Pollack, John.

Title The pun also rises : how the humble pun revolutionized language, changed history, and made wordplay more than some antics / John Pollack.

Publication Info. New York : Gotham Books, [2011]
©2011

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  808.7 POLLACK    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  808.7 POL    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  808.7 POL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  809.7 POLLACK    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  808.7 POLLACK    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  808.7 PO    Check Shelf
Description xxv, 212 pages ; 20 cm
Summary A funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on history. The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay. But such attitudes are relatively recent developments. In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack--a former World Pun Champion and presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton--explains why such wordplay is significant: It both revolutionized language and played a pivotal role in making the modern world possible. Skillfully weaving together stories and evidence from history, brain science, pop culture, literature, anthropology, and humor, this is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth.--From publisher description.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-203) and index.
Subject Puns and punning.
English language -- Humor.
ISBN 9781592406234 hardcover
1592406238 hardcover
-->
Add a Review