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Sylvia Plath and the classics (2019)
Book Chapter
Ranger, H. (2019). Sylvia Plath and the classics. In T. Brain (Ed.), Sylvia Plath in context (32-41). Cambridge University Press

"Reader, I married him/ her": Ali Smith, Ovid, and queer translation (2019)
Journal Article
Ranger, H. (2019). "Reader, I married him/ her": Ali Smith, Ovid, and queer translation. Classical Receptions Journal, 11(3), 231-255. https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clz009

This essay discusses Ali Smith's queer translation of Ovid Metamorphoses 9.666-797 in her 2007 novel Girl meets boy. I argue that Smith's presentation of a contemporary gender-queer Iphis and Ianthe not only fictionalizes the critical argument propos... Read More about "Reader, I married him/ her": Ali Smith, Ovid, and queer translation.

“My tree stays tree”: Sylvia Plath and Ovid’s Daphne (2019)
Journal Article
Ranger, H. (2019). “My tree stays tree”: Sylvia Plath and Ovid’s Daphne. International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 27, 215-237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-019-00503-9

Critical appraisals of Sylvia Plath’s oeuvre remain dominated by psychoanalytic readings that conflate the writer’s life and work. Poems such as ‘Electra on Azalea Path’ are presented as emblematic of what is perceived to be Plath’s autobiographical... Read More about “My tree stays tree”: Sylvia Plath and Ovid’s Daphne.

'Ovid, Plath, Baskin, Hughes' (2019)
Journal Article
Ranger, H. (2019). 'Ovid, Plath, Baskin, Hughes'. Ted Hughes Society Journal, 7(2), 7-24

Many critical treatments of the poetic interaction of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes have overlooked Hughes's 1997 translation of 24 episodes from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Tales from Ovid. This paper argues that the connections between Hughes, Plath, and O... Read More about 'Ovid, Plath, Baskin, Hughes'.