Synopsis
Collects and analyzes puns in literature, traces their use from classical times to the present, and looks at wordplay in popular culture, the visual arts, dreams, and advertising
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Walter Redfern is Professor of French in the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences at the University of Reading and has written many critical works on French literature. He lives in Reading.
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