This collection of essays is unique since there are no books that, in a comparable way, are dedicated to the study of the crossings between images and texts with this historicist perspective. The intersections between literature and the history of art are studied in the light of the modalities of exchanges between the American continent and Europe, from the seventeenth century to the present.
The volume, surely, will have an outstanding value for specialized readers looking for current reflections, as well as for young readers interested in learning about methodological resources to develop their own studies on topics at the borders between classic textual and iconographic materials.
In addition, the volume includes an essay by Professor J. A. W. Heffernan translated into Spanish, which will allow some readers to access for the first time one of the works of this internationally recognized specialist. Nothing less than this author is due to the contemporary canonical definition of one of the central interartistic phenomena in the book, écfrasis.