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Isozaki Lab
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A lab that explores the question “What is a novel?” from the standpoint of practicing writers.

AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about “What is a novel?”
Isozaki Lab studies the principles by which a novel is generated and the structural uniqueness of the novel as a form of expression.
A distinctive feature of the lab is that it approaches works from the standpoint of a practicing writer, that is, someone who writes novels.
Without relying on existing knowledge of literary history or its mapping of works, the lab reads closely, staying with the works themselves.
The lab welcomes students who want to actively think for themselves about the question “What is a novel?”
Key terms
- practicing writer
- Someone who also writes the kind of works being studied. Here, it means a person who writes novels.
- form of expression
- The shape a work takes in how it expresses itself, such as a novel, a poem, or a play.
- literary history
- An account that organizes, in chronological order, which works and writers appeared in which era.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies the principles by which a novel is generated and the structural uniqueness of the novel as a form of expression, from the standpoint of a practicing writer, that is, someone who writes novels. Without relying on existing literary-historical knowledge or mapping, it considers “What is a novel?” by staying close to the works themselves.
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The members of Isozaki Lab are faculty and master's students.
- Professor磯﨑 憲一郎
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Manuscript paper ( )” Ishikawa Ken / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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