Interviewing Roxana Silbert and Tessa Walker

Roxana Silbert and Tessa Walker visited the University of São Paulo while they were offering workshops on drama in the “Núcleo de Dramaturgia – Novos Autores” promoted by SESI/The British Council in São Paulo to whom we are deeply indebted for the opportunity to meet them. As Roxana Silbert directed Sebastian Barry’s play Dallas Sweetman at Canterbury Cathedral for the Canterbury Festival in September 2008, the Brazilian Association of Irish Studies invited her for an interview on the production of Barry’s play

ZUM Magazine: excitement in Brazil’s cultural scene

This is a review of ZUM, a semiannual magazine published by the Moreira Sales Institute. Aspects such as production, distribution, editorial line and the importance of the publication in Brazil’s art and culture scene will be addressed under a critical and historical approach

Notes on Mário de Andrade’s Marginalia to Ulysses

These Notes have the aim to place Mário de Andrade’s comments on Ulysses among the early criticism of Joyce’s novel

W. Blake & W.B. Yeats in The Tunnel of Time

This article traces a comparative view of the sacred and symbolic dimension in two congenial poets: William Blake and William Butler Yeats. Blake is a precursor of Romanticism in English poetry and Yeats has called himself “the last of the Romantics” at the start of his career. As a profound admirer of Blake’s work, Yeats has dedicated years in the reading and interpretation of his Prophetic Books. The impact of such interest is one of the focus here, as well as their views on mimetic and symbolic art. Yeats shows us in his essays on Blake that he struggled to make a distinction between these twoforms of representing reality.Keywords: Poetry; symbolism; representation in art; imagination

Anachronistic dystopias : constructive tensions between digital and analog imaging

The processes of constructing images that take the intersection as artistic strategy encompass much of the current production in the visual arts. This article discusses the recent productions of Flavya Mutran and Jander Rama, whose practices move between the anachronisms of the processes of analog image production and the dystopian vision related to advances in digital images. The transition of these productions through printmaking, drawing and photography raises questions about the stresses and displacements of the subject in contemporary art, caused by the clash between old and new technologies

Interviewing Éilís Ní Dhuibhne

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a novelist, playwright, and a storyteller. She graduated in English and Folklore at University College Dublin (UCD) and did her PhD at National University of Ireland. She has taught Folklore and Creative Writing at UCD. Eilis has won several awards, among them the Irish Pen Award in 2015 for the outstanding contribution of her work to Irish literature. She has published extensively both fiction and academic criticism and she is a member of the Irish Association of Artists (Aosdána). Her literary work comprises of over twenty-five books.Keywords: Éilís Ní Dhuibhne; fiction; creative writing; Irish language

Interview with Declan Hughes

In this interview which took place in Rio de Janeiro during the IX Symposium of Irish Studies in South America in 2014, Munira H. Mutran(MHM) and Camila Luly (CL) asked Declan Hughes (DH) questions about hisplays and his crime novels.Keywords: Declan Hughes; fiction; drama