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Preface -- Prolegomenon: Myth as a Tool in the Artist's Toolbox -- Multiple Selves and Egyptian Mythology: Mailer, Burroughs, Reed, Zelazny -- Mythological Worlds and Death: Acker, Gibson, Gaiman, Byatt, Kennedy, Pynchon, Morrow -- Orpheus and Eurydice: Variations on a Theme: Delany, Hospital, Phillips, Hoban, Gaiman, Powers, and others -- Invented Myth: The Problem of Power: Acker, Barthelme, Hoban, Moore, Calvino, and Gaiman -- Situational Myth: Posthuman Metamorphoses: McIntyre, McCaffrey, Simmons, Doctorow, Piercy, Stross, Rucker, Tidhar -- The Contemporary Functions of Myth as Artistic Tool: Pynchon, Arthurian stories, Faber, Pullman, Morrow, Ducornet, Marcus, Atwood, Vonnegut, Naylor, Morrison, Silko, Östergren, Winterson, Grossman, Rucker -- Conclusion. "Explores the functions of mythology in contemporary high and popular literature, charting how it reacts with our science-oriented and postmodern culture"--
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