Irony and ambiguity in the narrator of "A letter to three wives"

This paper reads Joseph Mankiewicz's film A Letter to Three Wives (1948) as a reflexive work of art which evinces a self-conscious use of the conventions of film narrative. The modernist problematization of the classical text, resulting in irony and ambiguity, is analyzed through a narratological ap...

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Autor principal: Deleyto Alcalá, Celestino
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Lenguaje:español
Publicado: Universidad de Zaragoza: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana 1991
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Sumario:This paper reads Joseph Mankiewicz's film A Letter to Three Wives (1948) as a reflexive work of art which evinces a self-conscious use of the conventions of film narrative. The modernist problematization of the classical text, resulting in irony and ambiguity, is analyzed through a narratological approach to such devices narration and plot construction, temporal structure, voice-over and focalization.