FORM IS CONTENT: MICHELE ROBERTS’ NOVEL DAUGHTERS OF THE HOUSE
FORM IS CONTENT: MICHELE ROBERTS’ NOVEL DAUGHTERS OF THE HOUSE

Summary/Abstract: "The essay challenges the assumption of neo-humanist critics that only realist texts can transmit basic moral values. It argues that experimentation is, above all, ethical, as it is essentially a search for new and more effective ways of presenting universal truths and humanist values. The works of a great number of experimental contemporary writers illustrate the validity of such a view. For example, the British novelist Michele Roberts boldly experiments with form but is also deeply preoccupied with moral issues. She contends that form and content are so tightly interwoven that it is hard to separate them. Therefore, the focus of the present study is on the interdependence between the ethical component and the experimental narrative techniques in such a key novel as Michele Roberts’ Daughters of the House which was shortlisted for 1992 Booker Prize and won the W.H. Smith Literary Award. "[...]

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