Tag: Justy Engle

  • Jane Eyre’s Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad: Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

    By Abigail Heiniger. (New York: Routledge, 2016. 186 pp. $149.95)  A Review by Justy Engle Jane Eyre has been transformed into silent films, feature films, radio dramas and theatre productions, and has inspired a wide selection of literature that both refigures and continues the original tale. The most recent feature film adaptation (2011) stars Mia…

  • Art, Life, Madness: A Comparative Exploration of Frida Kahlo and Charlotte Salomon

    Justy Engle Frida Kahlo and Charlotte Salomon depict the female experience as it transcends visual art. Both use images overlaid with text in their self-writing to allow their inner emotional turmoil to escape, creating unconventional products that caused them to appear to the public as suffering from some sort of madness.[1] By looking at Kahlo’s…

  • From the Editor

    In a sweltering gymnasium, Dr. E. Bruce Heilman (Campbellsville College, Class of 1949) delivered one of the most inspiring addresses on campus within the past two years. A veteran of World War II, who has experienced many of life’s challenges, he kept graduates, parents, family members, faculty, and staff with an energetic, humorous, and interesting…