Work cat.: Riordan, R. The Titan's curse, ©2007 (summary: When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it's up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared -- a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever; subj. hdgs. include: Artemis (Greek deity)--Juvenile fiction; Titans (Mythology)--Juvenile fiction; Animals, Mythical--Juvenile fiction)
Vansittart, P. Hermes in Paris, 2000 (summary: Hermes, the messenger of Zeus, likes to return to Earth now and again. He chooses to do so in Paris at the time of Napoleon III, a time of great frivolity and instability. Here he decides to play the most explosive practical joke in the world's history; 1st subj. hdg.: Hermes (Greek deity)--Fiction)
White, J.J. Mythology in the modern novel, 1971, via Google books: p. 23 (mythological fiction) p. 30 (Thomas Mann's mythological fiction) pp. 51-54 (it may help to sub-divide such novels into four categories: 1. The complete renarration of a classical myth. 2. A juxtaposition of sections narrating a myth and others concerned with the contemporary world. 3. A novel, set in the modern world, which contains a pattern of references to mythology running through the work. 4. A novel in which a mythological motif prefigures a part of the narrative (a single event, a character or a limited group of people), but without running consistently through the whole narrative, as in Type 3)
Moddelmog, D. Readers and mythic signs : the Oedipus myth in twentieth-century fiction, ©1993, via Google books: p. xii (mythological fiction) p. xiii (the narrative using myth)
Bhagavatananda, Guru. A brief history of the immortals of non-Hindu civilizations, 2015, via Google books: p. 29 (Some myths survive in theatrical or literary formats as plays or novels. Books in the shenmo genre of vernacular fiction revolve around gods and monsters; mythological fiction)
Leupin, A. Fiction and incarnation : rhetoric, theology, and literature in the Middle Ages, ©2003, via Google books: pp. 62-63 (Homer is the name that governs literature as a whole in the Confessions. He is the synecdoche for all mythological fiction.)
Yang, C.K. Religion in Chinese society, ©1961, via Google books: p. 17 (mythological fiction was immensely popular among common readers and professional storytellers who spun tales to the illiterate populace; in 1953, the Chinese Communist government issued a directive against the reading of mythological fiction)