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The Becoming-Greek Tragedy of Julian Barnes's Love, etc
in Critical Survey
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Ying Jiang
Ying Jiang
Lecturer, Tangshan Normal University, China clarissajiang@163.com
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Abstract
Deleuze and Guattari's becoming is a dynamic alliance with beings. It is not a monad but creative involution. The incorporeal becoming deterritorialises the beings and roams nomadically between them. It has no subject or object, nor does it have centre or periphery; it is a becoming-in-itself. This article analyses the differences between Nietzsche's becoming and that of Deleuze and Guattari. It also summarises the three attributes of a becoming, which is solipsistic, revolutionary and always in-between. Julian Barnes's novel Love, etc exclusively utilises monologues as the narrative device which, along with its minimal personae, penetrating conflict and unsettling ending, prompts a becoming-Greek tragedy similar to Antigone. The becoming-Greek tragedy is not a simple average of the two beings; rather, it is a heterogeneous, molecular interbeing.
Contributor Notes
Ying Jiang is currently a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages of Tangshan Normal University, China. She received her MA in English Literature from Leiden University, the Netherlands, and a PhD in English Language and Literature from Peking University, China. Her field of study is English literature and literary theory. She has published several academic articles, co-edited a number of English textbooks and participated in English research projects. This work was supported by the Humanities and Social Science Research Project, China's Ministry of Education under Grant No. 22YJA760109. Email: clarissajiang@163.com