Seeking a Small, Good Thing: A Non-Foodie Bakes Bread
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
29-9-2015 2:00 PM
Description
After being coerced into a bread-baking session with friends, a declared non-foodie finds herself surprisingly moved by the act of kneading, shaping, baking, and ultimately eating breads of all shapes and sizes. And as she eats, she cannot escape comparisons to one of her favorite short stories: Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing.” This presentation weaves discussion of Dr. Holt’s bread-making experience with literary analysis of “A Small, Good Thing,” emphasizing that Carver’s minimalism masterfully captures the random nature of tragedy in our lives and posits that the only real antidote to grief is each other.
Recommended Citation
Holt, Linda, "Seeking a Small, Good Thing: A Non-Foodie Bakes Bread" (2015). Humanities Symposium. 28.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2015/2015/28
Seeking a Small, Good Thing: A Non-Foodie Bakes Bread
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
After being coerced into a bread-baking session with friends, a declared non-foodie finds herself surprisingly moved by the act of kneading, shaping, baking, and ultimately eating breads of all shapes and sizes. And as she eats, she cannot escape comparisons to one of her favorite short stories: Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing.” This presentation weaves discussion of Dr. Holt’s bread-making experience with literary analysis of “A Small, Good Thing,” emphasizing that Carver’s minimalism masterfully captures the random nature of tragedy in our lives and posits that the only real antidote to grief is each other.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture