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Payback [sound recording] : debt and the shadow side of wealth / Margaret Atwood.

by Atwood, Margaret Eleanor 1939-

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CBC Audio, p2008.

COMPACT DISC 306.3 A887p

Debt -- Social aspects.

Debt -- Religious aspects.

Debt in literature.

Massey lectures series.

Alternate title:

Payback [sound recording]

[sound recording] :

5 compact discs (ca. 5 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm.

"CBC Massey Lectures 2008"--Container.

The lectures were broadcast in 2008 by the CBC Radio One program Ideas.

Host, Paul Kennedy.

In her wide ranging, entertaining, and imaginative approach to the subject, Atwood proposes that debt is like air - something we take for granted until things go wrong. And then, while gasping for breath, we become very interested in it. Payback is not about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects. Rather, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. By investigating how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day through the stories we tell each other, through our concepts of "balance," "revenge," and "sin," and in the way we form our social relationships, Atwood shows that the idea of what we owe one another - in other words, "debt" - is built into the human imagination and is one of its most dynamic metaphors.

Recorded lectures.

Adult books on CD.

Kennedy, Paul M., 1945-

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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