Publications

Edited Special Journal Issues

Lev Kenaan, V. & Schwartz, M., The Voice, Special Issue, American Imago, Vol. 79, No. 3. (230 pages) 2022.

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Lev Kenaan, V. & Lilach Lachman, The Political Poetry of Meir Wieseltier,

Dappim Research in Literature, Vol. 24, University of Haifa, 2023.

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Lev Kenaan, V. Uncovering and Concealment : The Face after the Covid-19 Mask, 

Dappim Research in Literature, Vol. 23, University of Haifa, 2021.

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Lev Kenaan V. (Ed.), Poetics of Forgetfulness: Literature and Dementia, 

Dappim Research in Literature, Vol. 22, University of Haifa, 2020.

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Lev Kenaan, V. Sobolev, D. & Gordinsky, N. (eds.) Paul Celan: Poetry, Philosophy and Translation, 

Dappim Research in Literature, Vol. 21, University of Haifa, 2017.

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Lev Kenaan, V. & Sobolev, D. (eds.) Children Literature and Childhood Memories,

Dappim Research in Literature, Vol. 20, University of Haifa, 2016.

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Articles in Journals

1. “Poetics of Hysteria: A Reading in Lea Goldberg’s And this is the Light and Amos Oz’s A Tale of Love and Darkness,” Ot, Tel Aviv University Press, Forthcoming 2024.

2. “Dwarfs on Giants’ Shoulders: What is Oedipal Historiography?” Mican, Ben Gurion University, Vol. 24, 79-102, May 2023.

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3. “Silent Witnesses: The Testimony of Objects in Holocaust Poetry and Prose,” in American Imago, Vol. 79, No. 3. September 2022.

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4. “Psychoanalysis and Classics,” in Oxford Classical Dictionary, https://doi.org/10.1093/9780199381135.013.8230, 2021.

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5. “Digging with Freud: From Hysteria to the Birth of a New Philology,” American Imago 78:2 (Summer 2021): 341-366.

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6. “Contagion, Influence and Inspiration,” Vestigia 3:1, 2021:183-190

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7. “Oedipal Time,” American Imago 77:4 (Winter 2020).  

8. “Édipo, Odisseu e o retorno da memória" (Oedipus, Odysseus and the Return of Memory) Codex: Revista de Estudos Clássicos 7:1 (June 2019) (Portuguese) pp. 12-22.

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9. “Sexuality as Intertextuality: Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance read and Rerwrite Ovid.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Vol. 29.3, (December 2018) pp. 58-85.

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10. “Lamentation on the Acropolis: Freud and the Ancient World,” Mican, Vol. 19, Ben-Gurion University, 2019. (Hebrew) pp. 84-109.

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11. "Artemidorus at the Dream Gates: Myth, Theory and the Restoration of Liminality." American Journal of Philology (AJP) 137:2 (Summer 2016) pp. 189-218.

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12. "A History of the Feminine Voice: From Sappho to Heloise,” Dappim: Research in Literature, Vol. 19, 2014, pp. 187-218. (Hebrew)

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13. "Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel," Ancient Narrative, Vol.  9, 2010, pp. 121-129.

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14. “Dream and Delusion in Apuleius' Metamorphoses,” Classical Antiquity, University of California Press, Vol. 23.2, Oct 2004, pp. 247-284.

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15. "The Contribution of Ars and Remedia to the Development of Autobiographical Fiction," Classica et Mediaevalia, vol. 56, December 2005, pp. 167-184.

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16. "Dreams and Dream-Narrative in Apuleius' Festival of Laughter", Motar: Journal of the Faculty of the Arts, 8, Tel Aviv University, 2000, pp. 99-108. (Hebrew)  

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17. "Fabula Anilis: The Literal as a Feminine Sense: Re-reading Apuleius' Tale of Cupid and Psyche," Latomus: Revue D'etudes Latines, ed. C. Deroux,  2000, pp. 370-391.

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18. "On Feminine Textuality in Antiquity," Motar: Journal of the Faculty of the Arts 6, Tel-Aviv University, 1998, pp. 95-100.  (Hebrew) 

Articles in Books

1. “Jewish, Israeli and Palestinian Receptions of Classical Antiquity: An Introduction” in Classics Transformed: Jewish, Israeli and Palestinian Receptions, Oxford University Press, eds., Lev Kenaan and Rosenmeyer. forthcoming 2025.

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2. “Exile in Translation: The Aeneid in Arabic” in Classics Transformed : Jewish, Israeli and Palestinian Receptions, Oxford University Press, eds., Lev Kenaan and Rosenmeyer, forthcoming 2025.

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3. “Objects Left Behind: Myth, Archeology and Psychoanalysis,” in Freud’s Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire, eds. R. Armstrong, M. Leonard, D. Orrells, T. DeRose, Freud Museum, London, 2023: 91-101.

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4. “Love, Sex, and Sexuality: Marriage: The Myth of Intimate Strangers,” in ed., K. Kleiber Hersch, A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, pp.97-112.

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5. “Ancient Childhood Memories: From Odysseus’ Scar to the Dream’s Navel.” in Lev Kenaan, V. & Weiss N. (eds.) Odysseus’ Scar: Memory and Identity, Collected Essays, Pardes Publishing House & The University of Haifa Press. 2018, pp. 63-86.

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6. "Spectacles of a Dormant Soul: A Reading of Plato's Gyges and Apuleius' Lucius," in Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, eds., M. Futre Pinheiro, D. Konstan and B. MacQueen, De Gruyter, 2018, pp. 341-359.

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7. “"Who Cares Whether Pandora had a Large pithos or Small pyxis?" Jane Harrison and the Emergence of a Dynamic Conception of the Unconscious,” in Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self, eds. E. O’Gorman & V. Zajko, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 97-113.

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8. "The Gates of Dreams: Duality and Ambiguity in Ancient Dream Literature," in Fleeting Dreams and Possessive Dybbuks: On Dreams and Possession in Jewish and Other Cultures, eds. R. Elior, Y. Bilu, A. Shinan, Y. Zakovitch, Scholion – Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University Magnes, Jerusalem, 2013, pp. 33-61.

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9. “Thauma Idesthai: The Mythical Origins of the Philosophical Wonder,” in Philosophy’s Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking, eds. I. Ferber and H. Kenaan, Springer, Contributions to Phenomenology Series, June 2011, pp. 13-26.

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10. "Aphrodite the Goddess of Appearances" in Aphrodite Revealed, eds. A. Smith & S. Pickup, Brill, 2011, pp. 29-50.

11 ."The Ancient Road to the Unconscious: On Dream Narratives and Repressed Desires in Ancient Fiction," in Sub Imagine Somni, eds. Ch. Walde & E. Scioli, Edizioni ETS, Firenze, 2010, pp.165-184. 

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12. "A. B. Yehoshua: On the Ethical Demand of Literature" in Intersecting Perspectives: Essays on A. B. Yehoshua’s Oeuvre eds. Banbaji, A., Ben-Dov, N. & Shamir, Z., Hakkibutz Hameuchad, 2010, pp. 541-549.

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13. "The Seductions of Hesiod: The Place of Pandora in Plato's Symposium," in Plato and Hesiod, eds. J.Haubold & G.R. Boys-Stones, Oxford University Press, 2010, pp.157-175.

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14. "A Moderate conversation on the Madness of Love," co-authored with Hagi Kenaan, Plato’s Phaedrus: A new Translation, Xargol Press, 2009, pp. 117-138 (Hebrew)

15. "Platonic Strategies in Ovid's Tales of Love" in Elegy and Narrativity, eds. P. Salzman and G. Lively, Ohio State University Press, 2008, pp.142-162.

16. "The Enigma of Woman: The Mythological Tie between Desire and Knowledge" in Desire, eds. S. Biderman and R. Lazar, Hakkibutz Hameuchad Publishing House, Kav Adom Series, 2007, pp. 79-99. (Hebrew)

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17. "Plato and His Predecessors" in Landmarks in Western Literary Criticism, Open University, 2005, pp. 11-90. (Hebrew)

18. "Eros in Plato's Symposium," co-authored with Hagi Kenaan, in Plato's Symposium: A new translation, Xargol Books, 2003 pp. 126-144 (Hebrew) 

19. “Images of Silence in Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” in The Language of Silence, eds. Siegfried Jakel & Asko Timonen, University of Turku, 2002, pp. 182-196.

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20. “The Development of the Feminine Voice: From the Hymn of Demeter to Antonia’s Line,” in The Voice and the Gaze: Studies in Literature, Cinema and Opera eds. V. Lev Kenaan, V. & M. Grover Friedlander, Resling Press, Tel-Aviv, 2002, pp. 19-41. (Hebrew)

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21. “Truth and Appearance in Roman Comedy", in Essays in Honor of Gordon Williams: Twenty Five Years at Yale, ed. C.Weiss and E.Tylawsky, New Haven, 2001, pp. 147-168.

Reviews

1.  "For my Children:” Review of Michal Aviad's Documentary film in Studio: Israeli Art Magazine 2003, pp. 26-30. 

2.  Review of Time in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, Vol 2, ed. I.J.F. De Jong & R. Nünlist, in Ancient Narrative Vol. 8, April, 2009, pp. 137-142.