International Comparative Literature Association

The International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) (French: Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée—AILC) is an international organization for international research in comparative literature.

Founded in 1954, ICLA promotes the study of literature from an international point of view. It organizes international congresses every three years.

History

ICLA was founded in Oxford, UK in 1954 in connection with the 6th Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM).^[1]

Balakian Prize

In 2004, ICLA and the Anna Balakian Foundation, established the Anna Balakian Prize^[2] to promote scholarly research by younger comparatists. The first prize winner was announced in 2007 in the XVIIIth Congress of the ICLA AILC in Rio de Janeiro. Past recipients of the Balakian Prize are:

2007 (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Line Henriksen. Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as Twentieth-Century Epics (New York: Rodopi, 2006).^[3]
2010 (in Seoul, South Korea)
- Karen L. Thornber. Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature (Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 2009).^[4]
- Hans-Joachim Backe. Stukturen und Funktionen des Erzählens im Computerspiel: Eine typologische Einführung (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008).^[5]
2013 (in Paris, France)
- Aurélia Hetzel. La reine de Saba: Des Traditions au mythe littéraire (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012).^[6] (top honour)
- Shun-liang Chao. Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte (Oxford: Legenda/Routledge, 2010).^[7] (honourable mention)
2016 (in Vienna, Austria) Alexandra Berlina. Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in Self-Translation. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)
2019 (in Macau, China)
- Shuangyi Li. Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement: Translation and Transcultural Dialogue. (London: Palgrave, 2017) (top honour)
- Maya Boutaghou. Occidentalismes, romans historiques postcoloniaux et identités nationales au XIXe siècle : Juan Antonio Mateos, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Markus Clarke, Jurji Zaydan. (Paris: Honoré Champion éditeur, 2016) (honourable mention)

Affiliation

The ICLA is a member of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM).^[8]^[9]

References

^ Gillespie, Gerard (2003). "The International Comparative Literatures Association (AILC/ICLA): Association Internationale de Littérature Comparéé". Diogenes. 50 (2): 117. doi:10.1177/039219210305000211. S2CID 148289034.
^ "Balakian Prize – International Comparative Literature Association – Association internationale de littérature comparée". Archived from the original on 2013-11-07. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-07-21. Retrieved 2013-08-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Empire of Texts in Motion — Karen Laura Thornber".
^ "verlag koenigshausen neumann - STRUKTUREN UND FUNKTIONEN Strukturen und Funktionen des Erzählens im Computerspiel. Eine typologische Einführung. Saarbrücker Beiträge zur vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft Bd. 44 € 48,00 3986". www.verlag-koenigshausen-neumann.de.
^ Hetzel, Aurélia (May 30, 2012). "La Reine de Saba Des traditions au mythe littéraire". Classiques Garnier – via classiques-garnier.com.
^ "Modern Humanities Research Association :: Legenda". www.mhra.org.uk.
^ "FILLM | Member Associations". www.fillm.org. Retrieved 2016-07-02.
^ "Statutes – International Comparative Literature Association – Association internationale de littérature comparée". www.ailc-icla.org. Retrieved 2016-07-10.

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