International Comparative Literature Association

The International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) (French: Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée—AILC), founded in 1954, is an international organization for international research in the field of comparative literature. The Association seeks to foster the study of literature undertaken from an international point of view and attempts to realize this objective through international cooperation. It organizes international congresses, occurring every three years.

International Comparative Literature Association
Formation1954 (1954)
Founded atOxford, England
President
Zhang Longxi
Editor
Marc Maufort
AffiliationsThe International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM)
Websitewww.ailc-icla.org

History

The AILC/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, the Association, in collaboration with the Anna Balakian Foundation, established the Anna Balakian Prize[2] to promote scholarly research by younger comparatists and to honor the memory of Professor Anna Balakian, a great comparatist. 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 AILC/ICLA is a member of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM).[8][9]

References
  1. Gillespie, Gerard (2003). "The International Comparative Literatures Association (AILC/ICLA): Association Internationale de Littérature Comparéé". Diogenes. 50 (2): 117. doi:10.1177/039219210305000211.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-11-07. Retrieved 2013-08-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-07-21. Retrieved 2013-08-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674036253
  5. "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.
  6. Hetzel, Aurélia (May 30, 2012). "La Reine de Saba Des traditions au mythe littéraire". Classiques Garnier – via classiques-garnier.com.
  7. "Modern Humanities Research Association :: Legenda". www.mhra.org.uk.
  8. "FILLM | Member Associations". www.fillm.org. Retrieved 2016-07-02.
  9. "Statutes – International Comparative Literature Association – Association internationale de littérature comparée". www.ailc-icla.org. Retrieved 2016-07-10.

Further reading
  • Gillespie, Gerard. 2003. "The International Comparative Literature Association (AILC/ICLA): Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée". Diogenes 50 (2): 117–120.


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