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Eisenhans, or Iron John in the cage, by Gordon Browne (1894)  Iron John is the eponymous character of the novel by the Grimm brothers. Bly proposes a retelling of this fairytale (1990) to highlight men’s struggle and the need for initiation in the U.S at the time. Throughout Bly’s work, Iron John embodies the archetype of the Wild Man.
27 February 2026

“I want to let the Wild Man out!”: Mythopoetic Men’s Movement and crisis in masculinity

More from our ECR Spotlight series: here, on the presupposed crisis in masculinity, Justine Chemin critiques Robert Bly’s mythopoetic mission for its symbolic revision of masculinity as a solution against an assumed masculine unease. Justine asks how the mythopoetic narrative redefines masculinity according to “new” standards.

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