Please read the attached book from Robert Nelson entitled, The Jealousy of Ideas: Research Methods in the Creative Arts.

Here is the synopsis:

This book presents an analysis of artistic ambition, exploring the judicious egocentricity that accounts for major literary, musical or artistic works. The archaic concept of jealousy is invoked to describe the fraught ambition that propels artistic work; and from this candid recognition of artistic desires, a methodology is hatched for reconciling the anxiously selfish zeal of artistic motivation with the poetic loftiness of artistic aspiration and its rehearsals in academia. The text confronts the new sanitized conditions brought about by the global assimilation of the practicing arts into universities. What happens psychologically to the artist or composer or writer who is absorbed in academic research? The text provides a conceptual survival guide for artists of all kinds who seek the academic dignity of artistic inspiration.