Silvia Schilling 
Orality and Remediation in Wordsworth’s ‘Goody Blake and Harry Gill’ [PDF ebook] 

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Didactics for the subject English — Literature, Works, grade: Pass with distinction, Uppsala University (English Department), course: MA Hauptseminar: Recent Developments in Literary Studies, language: English, abstract: This essay examines the relationship between literature and orality in the poem ‘Goody Blake and Harry Gill’, which is a part of William Wordsworth´s and Samuel Taylor Coleridge´s collection ‘Lyrical Ballads’. As stated by Wordsworth himself in the preface of the collection, this poem is ‘narrated as a Ballad’ and thus combines prominent features of written and oral culture. In addition to orality, the concept of remediation is discussed.