As analyses go, The Pun Also Rises does its best, but can’t help to wander around.Ī more philosophical or even argumentative treatment might a larger tome make, but Pollack ’s book is not that. Puns are, simultaneously, too vague and too specific a subject to say much about, other than to denote their usage. More of a revelation, or whatever the appropriate word is for when someone shows you what you already knew was there: what can really said about puns, at book length? Their history and development over the course of the evolution of language itself warrants not much more than a Wikipedia entry. The truth is, there’s not much to the book itself. I also apologize for discussing other than the book at hand in this review. So, I apologize if this winds up being redundant. But I can’t for the life of me find on any of my several hard drives and cloud drives and others depositories for expository writing any such file. I have a phrase in my head, that I feel I must have written already, something about how John Pollack peppers The Pun Also Rises with puns, which is to be expected. I’m just a tiny bit drunk, and I could swear I’ve already written a review for this book. I’m going to start this review with some self-indulgence, which is really par for the course when it comes to my style of reviewing. The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics by John Pollack
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |