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Publication Metadata only Diagnosing the national neurosis: The underground journal sizofrengi and ıts critique of 1990s Turkish society(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015) N/A; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of Comparative Literature; Mortenson, Erik; Karaoğlu, Rafet; Faculty Member; Undergraduate Student; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; N/AThis paper examines the attempt by the Turkish underground journal Sizofrengi (1992-98) to provide a space for psychiatrists, artists, and mental patients to voice their personal concerns as a means to critique problems in Turkish society. Sizofrengi was founded by young psychiatrists in order to critique the problems they felt were endemic to their field. Rejecting the institutional practices and assumptions the editors found constraining in their psychiatric community, Sizofrengi sought to give the patient a space to speak for themselves in order to deconstruct the vaunted role of the psychiatrist in Turkey. But Sizofrengi also sought to appropriate the language of psychology and the "madnesses" of the patients it strives to cure in order to revitalize what the editors felt was a moribund literary culture. The journal gave a voice to marginalized, underground writers, critics, and film makers that would go on to become far better known outside the confines of the journals' pages. While the result demonstrates that care must be taken when borrowing the discourse of the mentally ill, Sizofrengi presents an interesting case of a journal that was able to draw on issues of psychiatry in order to critique both literary and mainstream society.Publication Metadata only Mystical Islam and cosmopolitanism in contemporary German literature: openness to alterity(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2019) Department of Comparative Literature; Reisoğlu, Mert Bahadır; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 272108N/APublication Metadata only Revisiting multilingualism in the Ottoman Empire(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021) Bashkin, Orit; Department of Comparative Literature; Kim, Sooyong; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 52305N/APublication Metadata only The French intifada: the long war between France and its Arabs(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016) N/A; Department of Comparative Literature; MacDonald, Megan Catherine; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only The poet Nef'i, fresh Persian verse, and Ottoman freshness(Taylor & Francis, 2021) Department of Comparative Literature; Kim, Sooyong; Faculty Member; Department of Comparative Literature; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 52305Scholars have generally recognized the Ottoman poet Nef?i (d. 1635) for his refinement of the panegyric in Turkish and his skill in its unflattering twin, the invective. They have thus paid little attention to the fact that he composed poems in Persian, and sufficient to compile a collection of them, simply viewing his output as a byproduct of his taste for the fresh style emanating from the East, particularly India, with no consideration of other factors at play. The article addresses this contextual gap by situating Nef?i's engagement with the fresh style in relation to wider efforts at poetic renewal and also to literati disputes about the extent to which the fresh style and other currents from the East ought to be adopted and assimilated, in which differing formal and generic preferences, as well as linguistic and rhetorical concerns, were central. The article ultimately suggests that Nef?i's overall work should be seen as part of those wider efforts that also aimed at making Ottoman practice distinctively fresh.