Henry Pun-Off World Championship, yet neglects to pun-tificate or write at least one Al-a-Gore-y about his experience as Bill Clinton’s speech writer.Īfter a short history of jokes and a neurological lesson explaining how the mind works, for most of us at least, Mr. Pollack goes into detail telling us how he won the 1995 O. “The Pun Also Rises” by John Pollack is a serious book about a silly subject. The publisher has made available one (1) copy of “The Pun Also Rises” to be given out– enter at the end of the post. Even though this book is short in pages, it is long in content. “The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics” by John Pollack is a non-fiction book, in which the author tells his-story of puns. At once entertaining and educational, this engaging book answers fundamental questions: Just what is a pun, and why do people make them? How did punning impact the development of human language, and how did that drive creativity and progress? And why, after centuries of decline, does the pun still matter? Watch a Video.
Skillfully weaving together stories and evidence from history, brain science, pop culture, literature, anthropology, and humor, The Pun Also Rises is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth. 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.
But such attitudes are relatively recent developments.
The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay. A former word pun champion's funny, erudite, and provocative exploration of puns, the people who make them, and this derided wordplay's remarkable impact on history.
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