SOURCE: "Reconstructing Artistic and Scientific Paradigms: John Banville's The Newton Letter," in Mosaic, Vol. 25, No. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 121-33.
In the following essay, McIlroy examines the connection between scientific and literary pursuits in Banville's The Newton Letter, and asserts that it "is an ingenious exploration of how conceptual frames, both artistic and scientific, are imagined and reimagined to produce new syntheses."
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