“…Gods of the Egyptians ; or, Studies in Egyptian mythology…”

Table of Contents: “…Women Surrealists and Egyptian Mythology: Sphinxes, Animals and Magic /…”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- The Eye goddess -- Egyptian mythology -- Religion in ancient Greece -- The song of Solomon -- The works of Rabanus Maurus, one of the Church Fathers -- The Middle Ages -- A Tibetan myth -- Christian mysticism -- The analytical situation, modern dreams and visions.…”

Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Belton -- The body subversive : corporeal imagery in Carrington, Prassinos and Mansour / Madeleine Cottenet-Hage -- Identity crises : Joyce Mansour's narratives / Judith Preckshot -- Joyce Mansour and Egyptian mythology / Maryann De Julio -- In the interim : the constructivist surrealism of Kay Sage / Stephen Robeson Miller -- The flight from passion in Leonora Carrington's literary work / Peter G. …”

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