Double Entendre in Literature

[cacian]

how and why does literature use double entendre?
I am looking to further knowledge in this topic so any examples stories books most welcome :)

here is a link
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/double-entendre-examples.html

[Mohammad Ahmad]

The ambiguity due to grammar also is possible, examine the following examples:
1- due to pronoun:
Jane asked her aunt if (she) could go with her to the party.
The pronoun ( she) in the above sentence can be referred either to Jane or her aunt
2- due to adverb position
John didn't hit Mary on head strongly. How many interpenetration can we conclude?
Here the adverb in the end of the sentence makes confusion, so the sentence can be interpenetrated that John didn't hit Mary on her head at all but hit her on other parts of her body, or he hits her in certain place of head but rather to include the other parts or it can be interpenetrated that John neither hits Mary on her head nor does in her body
3- due to sentence structure:
Visiting aunts can be an annoyance. Here someone may ask: which on is the source of annoyance? is it the visiting of aunts for us or is it the visiting of us to the aunts?

[Ecurb]

In "Mansfield Park" Mary Crawford gets herself into trouble with censorious Edmund and Fanny by making a pun about her uncle the Admiral's home:



"Of various admirals I could tell you a great deal: of them and their flags, and the gradation of their pay, and their bickerings and jealousies. But, in general, I can assure you that they are all passed over, and all very ill used. Certainly, my home at my uncle’s brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears and Vices I saw enough. Now do not be suspecting me of a pun, I entreat.”

[Lokasenna]

Because dirty jokes are fun.

[ennison]

Double entendres are usually only single.

[cacian]

Because dirty jokes are fun.

so you say so you say ;)

[ennison]

Topless model goes into cathedral. Archbishop has a stroke. Really? It only has one entendre. T other is a mist.

[mona amon]

As Loka says, dirty jokes are fun, and the pages of literature are strewn with them - Shakespeare, Chaucer, Sterne. The sexually repressed Victorians generally kept away from them. Charlotte Bronte uses a lot of sexual metaphor and imagery, but no intentional double entendres, but readers find many unintended ones in her works, and in those of her fellow Victorians. Modern literature can say what it likes without resorting to the double entendre, so these days the double entendre has only one meaning, as Ennison puts it.

Then there's the case where the author puts in a private double entendre which he knows will be missed by most of the target audience. Dickens' character names like Mr Dick and Master Bates are almost certainly intentional, as are the numerous double entendres in Disney movies. Fans pick up on quite a few double entendres in the Harry Potter series, most of which I feel are completely intentional. Rowling has a Puckish sense of humour, which she could not directly indulge in a children's series.