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Ironic precision
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Ironic precision is a literary style combining the literary devices of irony and precisionism. It was used by Gustave Flaubert and poet , The use of ironic precision was highlighted in the Nobel citation for in 1996. She was given the award "for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality". Jonathan Swift features the use of ironic precision in his essay A Modest Proposal. As discussed in the 2012 book Encyclopedia of the Essay, the style is used when his character, a Tory, suggests that the English aristocracy encourage the Irish to sell their children. In 1980, Vladimir Nabokov in his lectures described the style of Gustave Flaubert having ironic precision: |
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