International Comparative Literature Association
The International Comparative Literature Association 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.Balakian Prize
In 2004, ICLA and the Anna Balakian 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. Past recipients of the Balakian Prize are:2007 Line Henriksen. Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as Twentieth-Century Epics.2010- * Karen L. Thornber. Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature.
- * Hans-Joachim Backe. Stukturen und Funktionen des Erzählens im Computerspiel: Eine typologische Einführung.2013
- * Aurélia Hetzel. La reine de Saba: Des Traditions au mythe littéraire.
- * Shun-liang Chao. Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte. 2016 Alexandra Berlina. Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in Self-Translation. 2019
- * Shuangyi Li. Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement: Translation and Transcultural Dialogue.
- * Maya Boutaghou. Occidentalismes, romans historiques postcoloniaux et identités nationales au XIXe siècle : Juan Antonio Mateos, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Markus Clarke, Jurji Zaydan.