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Resources

This page features information on the British Comparative Literature Association’s house journal, Comparative Critical Studies, published three times a year with electronic supplements and sent free of charge to full, part-time and retired members; and the book series, Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature. Further down the page, you will find up-to-date resources useful to all working in the fields of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies.

Professional Associations & Research Centres

To foster a sense of global community and transnational, interdisciplinary research, the BCLA has collated a list of national and international associations, societies and research centres linked to Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, with links to dedicated websites and associated journals and publications.

 

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BCLA Publications

Legenda Studies In Comparative Literature

The book series, Studies in Comparative Literature (SICL), is published in close collaboration with the British Comparative Literature Association by Legenda, the book imprint for new research in humanities disciplines. Legenda was originally founded in 1995 by the European Humanities Research Centre at Oxford University, under the leadership of Malcolm Bowie, President of the BCLA from 1998 to 2004, and is presently owned by the Modern Humanities Research Association.

There are presently fifty-six published titles in the series, with seven more forthcoming in for 2020 and 2021. all the volumes published range widely across comparative and theoretical topics in literary and translation studies, and they also accommodate research at the interface between different artistic media and between the humanities and the sciences. See the homepage of Studies in Comparative Literature for the full list of titles.

The editorial committee, which is appointed by the BCLA, is currently chaired jointly by Dr Emily Finer (St Andrews) and Professor Wen-Chin Ouyang (SOAS, University of London).

For further details on submission of proposals and manuscripts, follow this link: proposals for new Legenda books.

Comparative Critical Studies

Comparative Critical Studies is the house journal of the British Comparative Literature Association, published by Edinburgh University Press in three issues yearly. The journal has a dedicated page on the Edinburgh University Press website for browsing old issues and for online access. Comparative Critical Studies also incorporates Comparative Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 1979-2003) and New Comparison (BCLA, 1986-2003) both of which have now ceased publication.

The journal is concerned with comparative literary and critical studies internationally and in the UK, from whatever standpoint.

Comparative Critical Studies

  • features Special Issues on current topics,
  • publishes selected papers from the international and workshop conferences of the British Comparative Literature Association,
  • covers new developments in the field through reviews and bibliographies,
  • publishes the winners of the annual John Dryden Translation Competition, sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation.

Contributions for articles and book reviews are invited. These include unsolicited submissions, and will receive peer review.  Here is further information concerning the submission of previously unpublished work, including author guidelines and style sheet.

Archives & Databases

The section below features a list of databases and online collections which hold resources in a variety of media, including e-books, manuscripts, art, music and film, relevant to scholars working in the fields of Comparative Literature and Translation.

Europeana Collections is a collection of almost 58,000,000 resources in book, manuscript, art, film and music media drawn from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives. Curated collections include: The Rise of Literacy in Europe, Migration, the First World War, Twentieth Century Modernist Art, and Women’s History.

JISCMail – COMPARATIVE-LITERATURE List provides a forum for all who are interested in the study of literature without confinement to national or linguistic boundaries, and in relation to other disciplines. It will advertise the activities of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA).

LitLine is a website which serves the independent literary community. It features a extensive databases of independent, community and not-for-profit publishers, literary and poetry journals, and organisations which support independent writers and poets.

Online Books Page comprises an index of more than 2 million online and electronic books,  readable without charge, copyright cleared or with permissions for non-commercial use, with search facilities by author, title, and subject

VoS – Voice of the Shuttle is a database that serves content dynamically on the Internet. The VoS categories include resources in Literature in English, Literatures other than English, Classical Studies, Literary Theory,  Gender and Sexuality Studies, in all languages, and covering individual authors as well as genres, topics and periods. There are also databases of journals, conferences and mailing lists. 

Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature carries a wide range of fiction and interviews from contemporary international authors. Words without Borders has published 2,200 writers from 134 countries, translated from 114 languages, and also holds regular events, in addition to its education programme WWB Campus, which aims to inspire a lifelong interest in international literature.

The British Centre for Literary Translation is a research centre within the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. It is a national and international focus for literary translation research, hosting regular research events, and works in partnership with the BCLA to support the annual John Dryden Translation Competition. The BCLT’s Resources page is also an up-to-date and comprehensive guide to funding, residencies, networking, publishing and events.

The Creative Literary Studio carries a list of resources with links to publishing houses specialising in translation, prizes and awards for translation and some articles.

The European Society for Translation Studies has a list of international research associations, a 2012 list of 103 associations in European Union Member States, and a list, with links, of all international journals in Translation Studies.

The Institute for Translation and Interpreting is the UK-based independent professional membership association for practising translators, interpreters and language service businesses. It offers networking opportunities and peer group support, together with links to professional development and current institutional research projects.

Literature Across Frontiers  Translation Workshops  comprise week-long residential workshops which act as cross-cultural encounters for writers and poets working in all European languages, in partnership with local literature organisations.  The workshops often focus on poetry, usually less supported by commercial interests.  Literature Across Frontiers also carries a hub of resources for translation, including information for publishers on grants for publishing translation,  and information for writers and translators on where to locate residences and bursaries,.

The National Centre for Writing is a charity supporting writers, literary translators and those working in any literary field.  Based in Norwich, UNESCO’s first UK City of Literature,  the Centre offers collaborations, mentoring and support, events of all kinds and activities for young people.

The Translation Database, hosted by Publishers Weekly,  searchable and open to contributions, tracks all original publications of fiction and poetry published in English translation in the USA. It identifies which books are available, from which countries and in what language.

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