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

• Autores: Celestino Deleyto Alcalá
• Localización: Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 1137-6368, ISSN-e 2386-4834, Nº 12, 1991, págs. 47-60
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • 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.