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Congresses of the International Comparative Literature Association

Hong Kong, 2004:
Proceedings of the XVIIth ICLA Congress have been made available on the congress web site: http://www.ln.edu.hk/eng/staff/eoyang/icla/List.htm

Papers from the congress appear in the following publications:
  • Six papers from the "Cross-Cultural Intertextuality" workshop (convened by Douwe Fokkema) appeared in the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, volume 31, no. 1 (March 2004)
  • Seventeen papers from Manfred Schmeling and Monika Schmitz-Emans' workshop on "(Post)Modernist Terrains: Landscapes-Settings-Spaces" have been published in Das Paradigma der Landschaft in Moderne und Postmoderne (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2007).
Pretoria, South Africa, 2000:
Proceedings of the XVIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association "Transitions and Transgressions in an Age of Multiculturalism" (Pretoria 13-19 August 2000). Ed. Ina Gräbe. Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2005.
Volumes may be ordered at: http://www.unisa.ac.za/press
  • Vol. 1: Comparative Literature in an Age of Multiculturalism. Ed. Reingard Nethersole.
  • Vol. 2: Transgressing and Traversing Continental Boundaries. Ed. John Noyes.
  • Vol. 3: Transgressing Cultural and Ethnic Borders, Boundaries, Limits and Traditions. Ed. Ampie Coetzee.
  • Vol. 4: Temporal Transition: What was the Past; What will the Future Be? Ed. Merle Williams.
  • Vol. 5: Transgressing Gendered Stereotypes. Ed. Gerrit Oliver. Transgression and Transition of Genre and Media. Ed. Fanie Oliver. Transition and Information Technology. Ed. Hein Viljoen.
  • Vol. 6: Cultural Encounters: Conjunctions and Disjunctions. Ed. Djelal Kadir. New Context Creation by Translations and Translators. Ohsawa Yoshihiro. Looking at Writing. Ed. Lisa Block de Behar.
Leiden, The Netherlands, 1997:
Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association "Literature as Cultural Memory" (Leiden 16-22 August 1997).
Volumes may be ordered at: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=ICLA
  • Vol. 2: Colonizer and Colonized. Ed. Theo D'Haen, Patricia Krüs.
  • Vol. 3: The Conscience of Humankind. Ed. Elrud Ibsch in cooperation with Douwe Fokkema and Joachim von der Thüsen.
  • Vol. 4: Gendered Memories. Ed. John Neubauer, and Helga Geyer-Ryan.
  • Vol. 5: Genres as Repositories of Cultural Memory. Ed. Hendrik van Gorp, Ulla Musarra-Schroeder
  • Vol. 6: Methods for the Study of Literature as Cultural Memory. Ed. Raymond Vervliet, Annemarie Estor
  • Vol. 7: Reconstructing Cultural Memory. Ed. Lieven D'Hulst, John Milton
  • Vol. 8: Intercultural Explorations. Ed. Eugene Eoyang
  • Vol. 9: Travel Writing and Cultural Memory. Écriture du voyage et mémoire culturelle. Ed. Maria Alziro Seixo
  • Vol. 10: Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese Literature. Ed. Hua Meng, Sukehiro Hirakawa
Tokyo, Japan, 1991:
Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the ICLA/Actes du Xllle Congrès de l'AILC (Tokyo, 23-28 August 1991). Gen. Eds. Earl Miner, Haga Toru, Kawamoto Koji and Ohsawa Yoshihiro. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994. The Proceedings consist of the following 6 volumes:
  • Vol. 1: Dramas of Desire/Drames do désir (Section I); Visions of Beauty/Visions do beau (Section II).
  • Vol. 2: Visions in History/Les visions dans l'histoire (Section III); Visions of the Other/Visions de l'autre (Section VI).
  • Vol. 3: Powers of Narration/Les pouvoirs de la narration (Section IV); Vision and Re-vision of Literary Theory/Vision et revision des theories littéraires (Section V); Workshop B: Literary Theory.
  • Vol. 4: Workshop A: Translation and Modernization.
  • Vol. 5: Workshop C: New Visions of Creation: Feminist Innovations in Literary Theory.
  • Vol. 6: Section VII: Inter-Asian Comparative Literature: Assirmilation and Diffusion. Keynote Speeches; Panel Discussion "Visions of the Other"; Workshop D: Madonna Figures in Japanese Literature; Workshop E: Kurosawa Akira's Vision; Workshop F: Postmodernity; Workshop G: Nihon Bungaku ni okeru Katari no Chikara
  • Additional: the proceedings of workshop H "Editorial Visions of Comparative Literature Journals" were published separately in: ICLA Bulletin 9 (1991), no. 2, pp. 8-31. Ed. Rien T. Segers.
Munich, Germany, 1988:
Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the ICLA/Actes du Xlle Congrès de l'AILC (Munich, 1988). Eds. Roger Bauer, Douwe Fokkema and Michael de Graat. Munich: Iudicium Verlag,1990. The Proceedings consist of the following 5 volumes:
  • Vol. 1: Plenary Sessions and Coloquium Munich/Séances plénières et Colloque Munich. 251 pages.
  • Vol. 2: Space and Boundaries in Literature/Espace etfrontières dans la littérature. (Section 1) 606 pages.
  • Vol. 3: Space and Boundaries in Literature/Espace etfrontières dans la littérature. Workshops/Groupes de travail: China and the West/La Chine et Occident; Medieval Islamic Literature/La littérature islamique médiévale; The Feminist Redefinition of Literary Space/La redefinition féministe de Respace littéraire. 509 pages.
  • Vol. 4: Space and Boundaries of Literature/Espace etfrontières de la littérature. (Section 2) 651 pages.
  • Vol. 5: Space and Boundaries in Literary Theory and Criticism/ Espace etfrontières dans la critique et la théorie littéraire (Section 3); Space and Boundaries in the Teaching of General and Comparative Literature/Espace et frontières dans l'enseignement de la littérature generate et comparée (Section 4). Workshops/Groupes de travail: the Formation and Deformation of Concepts in Literary Theory/Formation et deformation des concepts dans la théorie littéraire; Assimilating the Foreign: the Function of Translation in Literary History/Intégration de Stranger: Fonction de la traduction en histoire littéraire. 415 pages.
Paris, France, 1985:
Actes duXIe Congrès de l'AILC/Proceedings of the XIth Congress of the ICLA (Paris, 1985). Eds. Eva Kushner and Daniel Pageaux. Bern: Peter Lang, 1989-1994.
Volumes may be ordered at: http://www.peterlang.com/
  • Vol. 1: Le rayonnement international de Victor Hugo. Ed. Francis Claudon 1989. 273 pages.
  • Vol. 2: Fiction, narratologie, texte, genre. Ed. Jean Bessière. 1989, 239 pages.
  • Vol. 3: Toward a Theory of Comparative Literature. Ed. Mario J. Valdés. 1990, 276 pages.
  • Vol. 4: Oralité et littérature/Orality and Literature. Eds. Hans R. Runte and Roseann Runte. 1991, 257 pages.
  • Vol. 5: Littérature comparée, littérature mondiale/Comparative Literature, World Literature. Ed. Gerald Gillespie.1991,256 pages.
  • Vol. 6: Littérature générale, littérature comparée/General literature, Comparative Literature. Eds. Paul Chavy and György M. Vajda. 1992, 276 pages.
  • Vol. 7: La traduction dans le développement des littératures/Translation in the Development of Literatures. Eds. Jose Lambert and Andre Lefevere. 1993, 252 pages.
  • Vol. 8: Etudes de réception/Reception Studies. Ed. Rien T. Segers. 1993, 192 pages.
  • Vol. 9: Acculturation. Ed. Milan V. Dimic.
  • Vol. 10: Littératures émergentes. Ed. Jean-Marie Grassin.
New York, USA, 1982:
Proceedings of the Xth Congress of the ICLA/Actes do Xe Congrès de l'AILC (New York, 1982). Ed. Anna Balakian. New York: Garland, 1985. Vol. I: 516 pages; Vol. II: 691 pages; Vol. III: 304 pages.
Innsbruck, Austria, 1979:
Proceedings of the IXth Congress of the ICLA/Actes do IXe Congrès de l'AILC (Innsbruck, 1979). Ed. Zoran Konstantinovic. Innsbruck: AMOE, 1982. Vol. I: 305 pages; Vol. II: 436 pages; Vol. III: 352 pages.
Budapest, Hungary, 1976:
Actes du VIIIe Congrès de l'AILC/Proceedings of the VIIIth Congress of the ICLA (Budapest, August 1976). Eds. Bela Köpeczi and György M. Vajda. Stuttgart: Erich Bieber, 1980. Vol. I: 931 pages; Vol. II: 1006 pages.
Montréal/Ottawa, Canada, 1973:
Actes du VIIe Congrès de l'AILC/Proceedings of the VIIth Congress of the ICLA (Montréal/Ottawa, 1973). Eds. Milan V. Dimic and Eva Kushner. Stuttgart: Erich Bieber,1979. Vol. I: 562 pages; Vol. II: 728 pages.
Bordeaux, France, 1970:
Aches duVIe Congrès de l'AILC/Proceedings of the VIth Congress of the ICLA (Bordeaux, 1970). Ed. M. Cadot et al. Stuttgart: Erich Bieber, 1975. 816 pages.
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1967:
Actes du Ve Congrès de l'AILC/Proceedings of the lath Congress of the ICLA (Belgrade, 1967). Ed. Nikola Banasevic. Amsterdam: Swets and Zeitlinger, 1969. 797 pages.
Fribourg, Switzerland, 1964:
Actes du IVe Congrès de l'AILC/Proceedings of the IVth Congress of the ICLA (Fribourg,1964). Ed. François Jost. The Hague: Mouton,1966. Vol. I: 691 pages; Vol. II: 768 pages.
Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1961:
Proceedings of the Third Congress of the ICLA/Actes du Idle Congrès de l'AILC: Utrecht 21-26 août 1961. The Hague: Mouton, 1962. 367 pages.
Chapel Hill, N.C., USA, 1958:
Proceedings of the Second Congress of the ICLA at the University of North Carolina, September 8-12,1958. Ed. Werner P. Friedrich. U of North Carolina P. Studies in Comparative Literature, Chapel Hill, N.C.: 1959. Vol. I: 323 pages; Vol. II: 401 pages.
Venice, Italy, 1955:
Venezia nelle letterature moderne: Atti del primo congresso dell'Associazione Internazionale di Letteratura Comparata (Venezia 25-30 settembre 1955). A cura di Carlo Pellegrini. Venezia-Roma: Istituto per la collaborazione culturale, 1955. 375 pages.

Research Directories

The principal aim of these directories is to provide comparatists with information on the research interests and main publications of colleagues around the world. They thus promote international cooperation in comparative literary research.

  • Research Directory of the International Comparative Literature Association. Toronto: Research Development Committee of the ICLA, 1988.
  • Research Directory of the International Comparative Literature Association. Toronto: Research Development Committee of the ICLA, 1993.

Comparative Literature History

This series was launched by the ICLA in 1967. It is based on two fundamental premises. First of all, the writing of literary histories confined to specific nations, peoples, or languages must be complemented by the writing of literary history that coordinates related or comparable phenomena from an international point of view. Secondly, it is almost impossible for individual scholars to write such comprehensive histories, which implies we must now rely on structured teamwork drawing collaborators from different nations. The series is under the supervision of a coordinating editorial committee consisting of sixteen scholars from various countries (ICLA Coordinating Committee).

International Studies in Literary Culture

Other publications

  • Lisa Block de Behar, ed. Between Myths & Knowledge. Entre mitos & conocimiento: Montevideo: AILC, 2003. Available from Macondo Books Inc., 221 W 14th, New York 10011, (212) 741-3108
  • Han-liang Chang (ed.), Concepts of Literary Theory East and West. Proceedings of the Third Colloquium organized by the Committee on Literary Theory of the ICLA, 27-30 April 1990, Taipei (Taipei, Taiwan: CLAROC and National Taiwan University, 1993).
  • Marc Angenot, Jean Bessière, Douwe Fokkema and Eva Kushner, eds. Théorie littéraire: Problèmes et perspectives. Paris: PUF, 1989. 395 pages.
  • Eva Kushner, ed. Renewals in the Theory of Literary History/Renouvellements dans la théorie de l'histoire littéraire. Ottawa: The Royal Society of Canada/Société Royale de Canada en coopération avec/in cooperation with l'AILC/the ICLA, 1984. 285 pages.