Download or read book Hinges written by Grace Mazur and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grace Dane Mazur uses the idea of the hinge to illuminate real and metaphysical thresholds in fiction, poetry, myth, and ordinary life. From ancient narratives of Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Parmenides, and Orpheus, to modern works by Katherine Mansfield and Eudora Welty, the exploration of the Other World acts as a metaphor for the entrancement of readin