Feldman, Burton

This folder contains documents pertaining to Burton Feldman's acceptance of a commission to write a piece on the History of Mythic Thought in the Dictionary of the History of Ideas in 1968-9.

This folder contains files pertaining to Burton Feldman's contributions to the Encyclopedia of Religion.

This folder contains more than one hundred drafts by Feldman of the introduction to ''The Rise of Modern Mythology: 1680 - 1860'' that have been extracted from a large binder. Each draft is numbered with the notes that contributed to the changes.

This folder is the contents of a binder labeled ''Themes 1 - 85, Notes 1/2 to 1/20''. The contents pertain to Burton Feldman's research on mythology that would eventually become ''The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680 - 1860''. The notes and drafts are a collection of 85 different themes in mythology compiled by Burton.

This folder contains correspondence and copies of applications written and filled out by Burton Feldman for membership in the Institute for Advanced Study.

This folder contains a copy of a paper written by Burton Feldman in 1978 entitled ''Myth, Kinship, and Politics: How Poetry Articulates What Myth Does Not Say.''

This folder contains Note cards used by Burton Feldman for organizing his thoughts while compiling his notes for ''The Rise of Modern Mythology: 1680 - 1860''.

This folder is the contents of a binder labeled ''Notes A - Z''. The contents consist of a series of notes and drafts, kept alphabetically, by Burton Feldman pertaining to a future project that would chronicle the history of mythology from roughly 1700 to the ''present,'' then being about 1960. These are early notes that eventually would be used in his work ''The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860''.

This folder contains notes and outlines for Burton Feldman and Robert D. Richardson's project ''The Rise of Modern Mythology.'' A good portion of these notes are devoted to the ideas of myth in the years following 1870, a span of time which the final book did not actually cover.

This folder is the first of two containing Burton Feldman's research on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The research is broad, but has a good deal of focus on Goethe's optics, Faust, and some elements of mythology.