Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth - Couverture rigide

Atwood, Margaret

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0747598495 ISBN 13 : 9780747598497

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2008

Synopsis

"Payback" is an intelligent, wide-ranging book that examines the metaphor of debt and the role it takes in our lives. 'Debt' is like air - something we take for granted and never think about until things go wrong. This is not a book about debt management or high finance, but about debt as a very old, central motif in religion and literature and also in the structuring of human societies. She looks at the language of debt in the Old Testament - what was 'owed' to God, and why. She then turns to investigate debt as sin in medieval and Elizabethan literature, before it develops into a plot-driving concept in nineteenth and twentieth century novels. The debts to society and to nature are discussed in the final essay in this book as Atwood explores how debt as a metaphor affects our understanding of the environment and death. Topical, enlightening and probing, this is the work of one of the most gifted writers of our generation.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0747598495
• ISBN 13: 9780747598497
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240