River, and who subsequently gathers the men of Dover, Mississippi, to Left a note announcing her intention to drown herself in the Pearl William Wallace Jamieson, a confused young husband who returns homeĪfter a boys' night out to find that his pregnant wife Hazel has In the same vein, Welty's comic tale of the portentously named (175-231), and Peter Schmidt's analysis of "Asphodel" asĪ systematic send-up of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (129-35). ("Fire"), Rebecca Mark's interpretation of "Musicįrom Spain" as an "answer" to Joyce's Ulysses Include Patricia Yaeger's study of "Sir Rabbit" as aĭialogue with Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" A list of such intertextual readings might Literary modernism, feminist critics have also made us aware of theĮxtent to which Welty's stories self-consciously engage and revise In successfully reestablishing Welty as a major figure in American Predecessors and contemporaries, that constitute the prehistory of the Rituals of masculinity, ubiquitously explored by her male modernist Own story about men without women that both parodies and revises the Knew what she was doing when, in "The Wide Net," she wrote her Men Without Women to knew what he was doing" Welty wryly comments that "an editor who sent out a new book called The beginning of a 1958 review of Virginia Woolfs Granite and Rainbow, The retrograde politics, of this strand of modernist sensibility. Years before Bly discovered the sales potential, if not, regrettably, (2) The mythopoetic movement's intellectual andĬultural indebtedness to modernist myth criticism may help explain whyĮudora Welty's 1942 story "The Wide Net" can profitablyīe read as a proactive invention and deflation of Iron John some fifty Eliot, Northrop Frye,Īnd Carl Jung, hasn't, as it turns out, died it has just migrated Thinking of figures like Joseph Campbell, T. The kind of modernism articulated by and through the In founding what proved in the event to be a highly lucrativeĮnterprise. Primitivism, and their attendant appeals to deep structure and identity) Intellectual matrix of literary modernism, has gone largely unremarked.īly and other leaders of the men's movement drew heavily on a wholeĪrray of key modernist tropes (myth, ritual, archetypalism, and More revealing characteristics, namely, its demonstrable roots in the Men's studies scholars have offered substantial analyses of variousĪspects of this now largely defunct movement, one of Iron John's Movement of the 1980s and early 1990s, popularized by Robert Bly in hisġ990 bestseller, Iron John, would seem an almost irresistible site forĬultural criticism. "cosmic, life-engendering phallus," the mythopoetic men's Men," "inner warriors," "Zeus energy," and the
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