Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

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| abbreviation = J. Comp. Lit. Aesthet.

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| discipline = Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Art History, Literary Criticism

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| language = English

| editor = Various, previously Ananta Charan Sukla

| publisher = Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

| country = India

| history = 1977–present

| frequency = Quarterly

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| ISSN = 0252-8169

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| OCLC = 8714643

| website = http://jcla.in/

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The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (also known as JCLA) is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal published from India in the field of literature, philosophy, religion, and art history. The journal, published by Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics since 1977 as its official organ, addresses interdisciplinary and cross-cultural issues in literary understanding and interpretation, aesthetic theories, conceptual analysis of art, literature, philosophy, religion, mythology, history of ideas, literary theory, history, and criticism.{{Cite book|title=Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism|last=Altieri|first=Charles|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1989|isbn=9780521330855}} It publishes essays and book reviews ranging across the literary and philosophical traditions of the East and the West. The institute, which publishes the journal and also academic books, was founded on 22 August 1977 coinciding with the birth centenary of legendary philosopher, aesthetician, and historian of Indian art, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947).{{Cite news|url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2019/state-editions/prof-mohapatra-now-jcla-editor.html|title=Prof Mohapatra now JCLA Editor|date=15 January 2019|work=The Pioneer|access-date=5 December 2019}} Both the Institute and the journal were founded by Late Ananta Charan Sukla (1942-2020), a former professor of English and Comparative Literature at Sambalpur University, India.{{Cite web|url=http://jcla.in/|title=Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics|website=JCLA|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414222117/http://jcla.in/|archive-date=2019-04-14}}{{Cite journal|year=2019|title=About the Journal|journal=Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics|volume=42|issue=1|pages=1|issn=0252-8169}}{{Cite journal|title=Journal of comparative literature & aesthetics.|oclc = 8714643}}{{Cite book|title=Ananta Sukla : As We Know Him|publisher=Cool Grove Publications|isbn=9781887276191|editor-last=Dash|editor-first=Bishnu Charan|location=New York}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/author/ananta-ch-sukla|title=Author : Ananta Ch Sukla|website=Bloomsbury}} It is the oldest journal of India in the field of literature and philosophy which is still active, sans any institutional support.{{Cite web|url=https://british-aesthetics.org/cfps-journal-of-comparative-literature-and-aesthetics/|title=About the Journal|website=British Society of Aesthetics|date=5 December 2019 }}

The journal has published articles by renowned scholars like Rene Wellek, Harold Osborne, John Hospers, John Fisher, Murray Krieger, Martin Bocco, Remo Ceserani, J.B. Vickery, Menachem Brinker, Milton Snoeyenbos, Mary Wiseman, Ronald Roblin, T.R. Martland, S.C. Sengupta, K.R.S. Iyengar, V.K. Chari, Charles Altieri, Peter Lamarque, Martin Jay, Jonathan Culler, Richard Shusterman, Robert Kraut, Terry Diffey, T.R. Quigley, R.B. Palmer, David Fenner,{{Cite book|title=Art in Context: Understanding Aesthetic Value|last=Fenner|first=David E. W.|publisher=Ohio University Press|year=2008|isbn=9780804011044}} Keith Keating{{Cite journal|date=2001|title=Journals Received|journal=British Journal of Aesthetics|volume=41-2}}{{Cite journal|date=1985|title=Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics|journal=British Journal of Aesthetics|volume=25-2}} and G. L. Hagberg.{{Cite book|title=Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory|last=Hagberg|first=G. L.|publisher=Cornell University Press|year=1998|isbn=9780801485312|location=United States of America|pages=ix}} Rene Wellek, Harold Osborne, Mircea Eliade, Monroe Beardsley, John Hospers, John Fisher, Meyer Abrams and John Boulton have served on the editorial board of the Journal.{{cite web|url=http://jcla.in/journal-of-comparative-literature-and-aesthetics/editorial-board/|title=JCLA - editorial board|publisher=JCLA|website=jcla.in|date=11 July 2020 |access-date=2021-04-19}}

The journal is indexed and abstracted in the MLA International Bibliography, Master List of Periodicals (USA), Ulrich's Directory of Periodicals, Publons,{{Cite web|url=https://publons.com/journal/103761/journal-of-comparative-literature-and-aesthetics|title=Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics|website=Publons (Web of Science)}} The Philosopher's Index, WorldCat Directory, The York Research Database,{{Cite web|url=https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/journals/journal-of-comparative-literature-and-aesthetics(e3e21fed-2e8e-45ee-b3e4-deb3cec0bc2a).html|title=Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics|website=The York Research Database}} ERIH PLUS,{{Cite web|url=https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/erihplus/periodical/info?id=497866 | title=Journal information | ERIH PLUS }} CrossRef, JSTOR, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, HathiTrust,{{Cite journal|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000863146|title=Journal of comparative literature & aesthetics.|journal=Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics|date=25 July 2022 }} UGC InflibNet,{{Cite web|url=http://14.139.116.25:8090/serial/beta/more.php?id=10749|title=Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics|website=indCat (Online Union Catalogue of Indian Universities)}}{{dead link|date=May 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} ACLA, and Gale (Cengage Learning),{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18888292?q|title=Journal of comparative literature & aesthetics|website=National Library of Australia}} United States Library of Congress, and the British Library. The journal is also indexed in numerous university (central) libraries, state and public libraries, and scholarly organizations/ learned societies databases.