ABSTRACT This essay discusses methodological possibilities for conducting research using creative artistic processes as references. I ask: how can experimentation be valued, well notes of works in progress, and registers flashes from life, without losing the rigor theoretical discussions or an attentive look at urgent ethical political needs present? Supported by Foucault, Hadot, Benjamin other...

The vagaries of poetic inspiration have often been regarded as ineffably mysterious, and have provoked conjectures since antiquity. Instead of invoking the muses, we today are more apt to consider neurophysiological factors. The case of the great English poet John Milton, whose poetic inspiration seemed to follow a marked seasonal pattern, is considered here, and evidence is presented to show c...

Thomas Marryat was born in London in the year 1730. He had a retentive memory and a great love for letters from an early age. He read and spoke Latin with ease, and it is said that he could read any Greek author, even Lycophron, at nine years old. Coming of a long line of Puritan ancestry, he was intended for the dissenting ministry, but literature, the muses and the pleasures of the town had g...