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

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

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

Sófocles na Irlanda: The Cure at Troy e The Burial at Thebes, de Seamus Heaney

Este artigo apresenta uma breve reflexão sobre o uso do mito na literatura e a ocorrência constante de reescrituras da tragédia grega na Irlanda. Como o estudo das interações entre o texto fonte e o novo texto depende do conhecimento em que a tragédia foi recriada, momentos significativos da história irlandesa foram esboçados com o objetivo de situar The Cure at Troy e The Burial at Thebes, de Seamus Heaney, e ilustrar alguns aspectos da transposição de Filoctetes e Antigona, de Sófocles, para a Irlanda.This article reflects briefly on the use of myth in literature and registers frequent rewritings of Greek tragedy in Ireland. As the study of interactions between the source text and the new one depends on some knowledge of the context in which the tragedy was recreated, significant moments of Irish history have been outlined. The Cure at Troy and The Burial at Thebes, by Heaney, transpositions from Philoctetes and Antigone, by Sophocles, are then analysed

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