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concept-316	none	Absence, Desire, and Love in John Donne and Roland Barthes	2002		.htm	text/html	5320	179	54	Language, operating with the same logic as a bodily drive, can then be seen as a desirous exchange motivated by an absence which is never obtained—only sought through endlessly deferred signs—which Donne dramatizes and Barthes theorizes. As in the enlarged frozen moments Barthes offers up for further examination in A Lover’s Discourse, Donne poetically strikes a series of poses which constitute his fictional speaker’s identity in relation to a series of revisions of an elusive beloved.          	cache/concept-316.htm	txt/concept-316.txt