Lynette Benton, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/lynette-benton/ Wed, 09 Dec 2015 12:38:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 A Memoir Narrator Transformed https://booksbywomen.org/a-memoir-narrator-transformed/ https://booksbywomen.org/a-memoir-narrator-transformed/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2015 07:43:21 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14446 Speaking of her most recent memoir, Joyce Carol Oates said in an interview, “[T]he elements of fiction…evoke rather than summarize, [which is] the desired goal in…memoir.” These days, memoirs mimic novels in plotting a narrative arc, and incorporating dialog, drama, a climax, and the protagonist’s transformation. The seeming requirement that novelistic techniques figure prominently in […]

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