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Hey /lit/ I'm looking to get better at puns. Which writers are the best?

I can read English, French, and Arabic.

>> No.9797757

Do you literally mean puns or something more like kennings? If you mean the latter, that's a lot easier because it's represented extremely well in older literature.

>> No.9797767

>>9797742
I did mean puns, but I'd be interested to see some stuff on kennings as well!

>> No.9797784

>>9797767

Norse sagas in particular are well-known for their kennings. Most epic poetry, in general, will have them.

I'm less sure on puns, but I'd take a look at Lewis Carroll's stuff, since (whether there are truly very many puns or not) he is extremely inventive with language.

>> No.9797807

>>9797742
watch the sopranos

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9798169

>>9797742
Smile, nigga!

>> No.9798199

>>9797742
Watch Arrested Development

>> No.9799473

>>9797742
in English there's Joyce, Gass, Nabokov, and DeLillo in some of his books but especially Ratner's Star which is pretty much a book to see how many possible puns there are. Pynchon too

>> No.9799867

>>9797742
According to Alfred Hitchcock, the pun is the greatest form of literature. Shakespeare was a great practitioner of punning. For example, in Richard III we have the famous lines:
"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;"

The sun also referring to the son of the Duke of York, and the badge of the "blazing sun," which Edward IV adopted.