The International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) (French: Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée—AILC) is an international organization for international research in
comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Comparative literature "performs a role similar to that of the study ...
.
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
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in 1954 in connection with the 6th Congress of the
International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures
The International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM), is an international academic organisation for scholarship in the field of languages and literatures.
FILLM is an umbrella organisation and its members are other academic o ...
(FILLM).
Balakian Prize
In 2004, ICLA and the
Anna Balakian
Anna Balakian (14 July 1915 – 12 August 1997) was the former chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. She served as president of the American Comparative Literature Association from 1977 to 1980 and was a longtim ...
Foundation, established the Anna Balakian Prize 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
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. 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).
* 2010 (in
Seoul, South Korea
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)
** Karen L. Thornber. ''Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature'' (Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, 2009).
** Hans-Joachim Backe. ''Stukturen und Funktionen des Erzählens im Computerspiel: Eine typologische Einführung'' (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008).
* 2013 (in Paris, France)
** Aurélia Hetzel. ''La reine de Saba: Des Traditions au mythe littéraire'' (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2012). (top honour)
** Shun-liang Chao. ''Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte'' (Oxford: Legenda/Routledge, 2010). (honourable mention)
* 2016 (in
Vienna, Austria
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) Alexandra Berlina. ''Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in Self-Translation''. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)
* 2019 (in
Macau, China
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)
** 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
The International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM), is an international academic organisation for scholarship in the field of languages and literatures.
FILLM is an umbrella organisation and its members are other academic o ...
(FILLM).
References
Further reading
* Gillespie, Gerard. 2003. "The International Comparative Literature Association (AILC/ICLA): Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée". ''
Diogenes
Diogenes ( ; grc, Διογένης, Diogénēs ), also known as Diogenes the Cynic (, ) or Diogenes of Sinope, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynicism (philosophy). He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea ...
'' 50 (2): 117–120.
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