نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
استادیار گروه زبان و ادبیات فارسی، دانشگاه دامغان، دامغان، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
This study examines the representation of power and ideology in William Blake’s poem London through a discourse-semiotic analysis grounded in Hodge and Kress’s social semiotic framework. Traditional literary approaches are insufficient to reveal how Blake’s language encodes the mechanisms of domination embedded in eighteenth-century British institutions. Using a qualitative and interpretive methodology, the article analyses the poem on three interconnected levels: (a) lexical choices and the ideology of possession; (b) structural metaphors and the internalization of oppression—most notably the key metaphor of “mind-forg’d manacles”; and (c) the oppositional representation of power institutions (the Church and the Palace) vis-à-vis marginalized social groups (chimney sweepers, soldiers, and harlots). The findings demonstrate how Blake’s compressed semiotic selections and syntactic displacements articulate the operations of domination, dispossession, and mental subjugation. The study concludes that power in the poem is exercised not through physical coercion but through the redefinition of meanings and the internalization of dominant ideology, revealing the latent radicalism of Blake’s socio-political critique.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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