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International Comparative Literature Association

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Founded at
  
Oxford, England

Editor
  
Marc Maufort

President
  
Zhang Longxi

Website
  
www.ailc-icla.org

Formation
  
1954; 63 years ago (1954)

Affiliations
  
The International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM)

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.

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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).

Balakian Prize

In 2004, the Association, in collaboration with the Anna Balakian Foundation, established the Anna Balakian Prize 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).
  • 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).
  • 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) Alexandra Berlina. Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in Self-Translation. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)

    • Affiliation

    The AILC/ICLA is a member of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures (FILLM).

    References

    International Comparative Literature Association Wikipedia
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