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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.

Formation

1954 (1954)

Oxford, England

Zhang Longxi

Marc Maufort

International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures

www.ailc-icla.org

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

History[edit]

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]

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).

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2010

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2016 (in ) Alexandra Berlina. Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in Self-Translation. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014)

Vienna, Austria

2019

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:

Affiliation[edit]

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

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

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Official website