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Noda Lab
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A French literature lab that reads the spaces depicted in Zola's novels.
AboutAbout the lab
Walking through the cities in novels.
The Noda Lab specializes in Émile Zola, a French writer of the late 19th century.
Its main object of analysis is the space depicted in novels.
The lab has deepened its study of the urban landscapes of Paris in Les Rougon-Macquart, drawing on the novels' process of composition and on historical research.
It is now also interested in the provincial towns, the provinces, movement and transportation, and architecture depicted in Zola's novels.
Key terms
- Émile Zola
- A French writer of the late 19th century who depicted society and cities in fine detail
- Les Rougon-Macquart
- A cycle of novels that Zola kept writing as the story of one family
- Process of composition
- The path a work followed before it was completed, including what the author researched and how they revised it
NewsLab news
Contributed to the publication of Émile Zola's Workshop
Held an information session for entering the Social and Cultural Studies course (a lab visit is required to enter)
Professor Noda received the Waseda University Teaching Award
ResearchResearch themes
Specializing in Émile Zola, a French writer of the late 19th century, the lab studies the space depicted in novels as its main object of analysis. Its interests have broadened from the urban landscapes of Paris to provincial towns, movement and transportation, and architecture.
*Illustrative imageReading Zola and His Circle's Short Story Collection in Translation
The lab continues a serial that reads Les Soirées de Médan, a short story collection that Zola and younger writers published in 1880, one story at a time in parallel French and Japanese text. It conveys the atmosphere of late-19th-century French literature.
*Illustrative imageOverlapping Words in L'Ève future
In Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's novel L'Ève future, which depicts an artificial human, each chapter opens with a quotation from another work. The lab analyzes how those quotations resonate with one another around the themes of the universe, time, and infinity.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMinori Noda
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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: “Paris - Rooftops in Paris - 3052” Jorge Royan / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Reading Zola and His Circle's Short Story Collection in Translation: “Manet, Edouard - Portrait of Emile Zola” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Overlapping Words in L'Ève future: “Rare antique grandfather clock with Badninton automaton C1790” Grandfatherclocks / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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