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Author : Maria Backus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781564179791
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Jest for the Pun of It! written by Maria Backus and published by . This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various kinds of games and activities having to do with word plays.
Author : John Pollack
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 1592406750
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book The Pun Also Rises written by John Pollack and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once entertaining and educational, this engaging book is a funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on human history.
Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191655066
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 written by Andrew Hadfield and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of scientific writing and travel writing; from diaries, tracts on witchcraft, and domestic conduct books to rhetorical treatises designed for a courtly audience; from little known works such as William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, probably the first novel in English, to The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer and Richard Hooker's eloquent statement of Anglican belief, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The work not only deals with the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, but also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period, ranging from the Euphuistic nature of prose fiction inaugurated by John Lyly's mannered novel, to the aggressive polemic of the Marprelate controversy; from the scatological humour of comic writing to the careful modulations of the most significant sermons of the age; and from the pithy and concise English essays of Francis Bacon to the ornate and meandering style of John Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous collection. Each essay provides an overview as well as comment on key passages, and a select guide to further reading.
Author : Chuck Closson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483632822
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Double Dealing III: The Pun written by Chuck Closson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pun is Older than Punctuation The start and use of punctuation occurred around 1500 AD. Prior to this no commas, periods, quotation marks, etc., were used in writing. What one doesn't have, one learns to do without. Books then were rare, no printing presses. Somewhere in those early years someone decided interpretative marks were needed to enhance writing. Yet puns were employed much earlier. In the New Testament, Matthew 16:18, Jesus is quoted as having said, "You are Peter, on this rock, I will build my Church". The word Peter in that ancient language translates as "rock. In effect a pun. Another early pun the headless horseman wore an unusual necklace. A young St. Augustine prayed, "Lord, make me pure, but not yet". Someone punned him as being a "roaming Catholic". Puns are inferential; they twist together meanings and entwine connections to enhance incongruity. No ifs, ands, or butts. Just a few months ago the White House and Congress faced the Fiscal Cliff. After weeks of back and forth wrangling only a few hours remained before going over the cliff to higher taxes. Expressing her disfavor toward a do nothing Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said, punningly, "Congress, it's all about time, it's about time!"
Author : Piers Anthony
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504059956
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Jest Right written by Piers Anthony and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of Xanth is a stage as an unlikely hero saves the show in the New York Times–bestselling series. There’s no shortage of laughs when Jess is around; she’s been cursed to have nobody take her seriously. But her dubious talent comes in handy when she meets the very handsome showman Magnus. He promises to fake taking her seriously—if Jess joins his traveling show. But first they must see the Good Magician. He will give them the use of the flying Fire Boat to tour the realm if they complete a quest. The only problem is, he can’t remember what quest. Something to do with night mares, day mares, and one or two future princesses. As Jess and Magnus try to unravel the mystery, they discover their true mission: to save Xanth from a big bird with a bone to peck . . .
Author : Adam Zucker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198906781
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare Unlearned written by Adam Zucker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early modern texts, revealing overlooked opportunities for understanding and shared community in words and ideas that might in the past have been considered too silly to matter much for serious scholarship. Each chapter pursues a self-knowing, gently ironic study of the lexicon and scripting of words and acts related to what has been called 'stupidity' in work by Shakespeare and other authors. Each centers significant, often comic situations that emerge -- on stage, in print, and in the critical and editorial tradition pertaining to the period -- when rigorous scholars and teachers meet language, characters, or plotlines that exceed, and at times entirely undermine, the goals and premises of scholarly rigor. Each suggests that a framing of putative 'stupidity' pursued through lexicography, editorial glossing, literary criticism, and pedagogical practice can help us put Shakespeare and semantically obscure historical literature more generally to new communal ends. Words such as 'baffle' in Twelfth Night or 'twangling' and 'jingling' in The Tempest, and characters such as Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Holofernes the pedant, might in the past have been considered unworthy of critical attention -- too light or obvious to matter much for our understanding of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Adam Zucker's meditation on the limits of learnedness and the opportunities presented by a philology of stupidity argues otherwise.
Author : Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases written by Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Berkowitz
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062495623
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Away with Words written by Joe Berkowitz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Away with Words] is low wit in its highest form. . . Mr. Berkowitz is sensitive throughout to the evanescence and contingency of punning and to the fleeting chemistry of a live pun-on-pun matchup crackling with energy." –Wall Street Journal Fast Company reporter Joe Berkowitz investigates the bizarre and hilarious world of pun competitions from the Punderdome 3000 in Brooklyn to the World competition in Austin. When Joe Berkowitz witnessed his first Punderdome competition, it felt wrong in the best way. Something impossible seemed to be happening. The kinds of jokes we learn to repress through social conditioning were not only being aired out in public—they were being applauded. As it turned out, this monthly show was part of a subculture that’s been around in one form or another since at least the late ‘70s. Its pinnacle is the O. Henry Pun Off World Championship, an annual tournament in Austin, Texas. As someone who is terminally self-conscious, Joe was both awed and jealous of these people who confidently killed with the most maligned form of humor. In this immersive ride into the subversive world of pun competitions, we meet punsters weird and wonderful and Berkowitz is our tour guide. Puns may show up in life in subtle ways sometimes, but once you start thinking in puns you discover they’re everywhere. Berkowitz’s search to discover who makes them the most, and why, leads him to the professional comedian competitors on @Midnight, a TV show with a pun competition built into it, the writing staff of Bob’s Burgers, the punniest show on TV, and even a humor research conference. With his new unlikely band of punster brothers, he finally heads to Austin to compete in the World Championship. Of course, in befriending these comic misfits he also ended up learning that when you embrace puns you become a more authentic version of yourself.
Author : Angelo Colorni
Publisher : Gefen Publishing House Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9789652294838
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Israel for Beginners written by Angelo Colorni and published by Gefen Publishing House Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide, based on first-hand, day-by-day survival of over three decades in Israel, will help you to first understand, then gradually accept, and eventually almost conform to the Israeli mentality, which in turn will enable you to first look like, then gradually behave like, and eventually almost become a real Israeli. With tongue firmly in cheek, the author takes some affectionate, punning jabs at his adoptive homeland's language, people, lifestyle, and land.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Sam Weller's Pickwick Jest-book, in which are Concentrated All the Funny Sayings of Sam and His Companions written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frankie Rubinstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349204528
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their Significance written by Frankie Rubinstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-12-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...Rubinstein is far from innocent and comes to our aid with a lot of learning...and is quite right to urge that not to appreciate the sexiness of Shakespeare's language impoverishes our own understanding of him. For one thing, it was a strong element in his appeal to Elizabethans, who were much less woolly-mouthed and smooth-tongued than we are. For another, it has constituted a salty preservative for his work, among those who can appreciate it...an enlightening book.' A.L.Rowse, The Standard.
Author : Noah Webster
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book An American Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Lemon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Allon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The British Quarterly Review written by Henry Allon and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Art Moger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806510972
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Best Book of Puns written by Art Moger and published by . This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Complete Pun Book" comes an all new collection. Here, readers will find a hilarious abundance of pun-ishment for the millions who can't resist giving a word or phrase a twist--and ammunition for many occasions from movie, TV and theater wags; from the wits of Wall Street and Washington; the gems from poets and pundits and some of the bottom-of-the-barrel crumbs! Introduction by Bob Hope. **Lightning Print On Demand Title
Author : Noah Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1512 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book An American Dictionary of the English Language ...; to which is prefixed an introductory dissertation on the origin, history and connection of the languages of Western Asia and Europe ... written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noah Webster
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
